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The symptom: Update from Windchill PDMLink 11.0 M030 to 11.0 M030 CPS09 failed ,errors in PSI log: DEBUG  2018-06-24 07:54:48 - Installing files from data file: wmd_WC_WINDCHILL_ROOT-src_inst-DUMMY-EMPTY_SPD_FLDR_995_sf DEBUG  2018-06-24 07:54:48 - Installing: D:\ptc\Windchill_11.0\Windchill\EMPTY_FILE DEBUG  2018-06-24 07:54:48 - ERROR: While extracting ZIP file entry: "EMPTY_FILE" DEBUG  2018-06-24 07:54:48 - Exception thrown: DEBUG  2018-06-24 07:54:48 - java.io.FileNotFoundException: D:\ptc\Windchill_11.0\Windchill\EMPTY_FILE (Another program is using this file, the process cannot be accessed) DEBUG  2018-06-24 07:54:48 - Data content installed files count: 0 DEBUG  2018-06-24 07:54:48 - Data content install failed files count: 1 DEBUG  2018-06-24 07:54:48 - Data file "wmd_WC_WINDCHILL_ROOT-src_inst-DUMMY-EMPTY_SPD_FLDR_995_sf" installed files count: 0 DEBUG  2018-06-24 07:54:48 - Data file "wmd_WC_WINDCHILL_ROOT-src_inst-DUMMY-EMPTY_S

I am trying to get a fresh installation of Windchill on my local machine. But i faced the below error on fresh installation    I looked it up in PTC Support and it says this is because of “Windows Servers Auto Admin Approval mode” I changed this setting in User Account Control setting and ran recovery for installation. Then there was an another error    I am attaching all the installation logs. Please let me know if anything else is required  

Hello,   I am looking for a way to create a WTPart attribute, that allows users to put a link to another part. Such an attribute would allow us to put information about "alternative parts", "successors" or similar into our PDM.   In the type and attribute manager I created a global attribute type "reference" and linked it to the WTPart. The attribute appears but I couldn't find a way to fill it. When I "check out and edti" the WTPart, the attribute is marked as unassignable.   Any hints on how to solve this are appreciated.   Best Chris    

Hello all,First post on here... I am looking for guidance on how to gather attributes from a workflow task (such as task completer, when they completed it, and comments) and drive those comments to an attribute on the affected objects. Example... Promotion request for a document. Document is promoted, approvers complete their approval task. I want to be able to put those attributes back into the document before the set state robot runs on the promotion request.I figure I will have to have some sort of expression robot, but what else? Anyone else done this sort of thing?Jim BaileySystems AnalystNASA GRC / Vantage Partners LLC

I'm trying to discover if there have been any successful integrations using ArtiosCAD and Windchill, either by transferring metadata attribute information or the actual CAD files.  If anyone has any experience with using ArtiosCAD and Windchill, please feel free to respond.  Thanks.-Alex

Hi, i can't export a task to an Excel File. When I click on "Export to excel", it shows me a blank page and then the message: "select an action for export" (in italian). Attached you can see some images about my problem.   Thank you.

We are setting up publisher rules to publish stp files. Creo 4 supports AP 242. Does anyone know if it is possible to configure the publisher to publish 242?

Hi All,   I am trying to configure Navigate with Windchill but it is failing with the error in the screeshot attached. Windchill is configured with SSL (tried with both trusted certiicates and self signed certificates) and Navigate is not SSL enabled (http). When validating the connection from Thingworx (ptc-windchill-integration-connector--> services--> ValidateConnection) it is failing. Thanks, Irfan

Hello,Which criteria should I select to see who are the active users in a report?Thanks,Craig

In the future we plan to use the gatekeeper functionality in Windchill due to prevent the check-in of models with ModelCHECK errors.In order to familiarize ourselves with it, we tried out some things in our test environment:In Creo, the ModelCHECK has been configured so that the ModelCHECK is executed when saving models and the two parameters MC_ERRORS and MODEL_CHECK are created or updated accordingly.In Windchill, the object type CAD document has also been extended by the two attributes.Finally, the check-in options in Windchill have been set to check the attributes on check-in.Now it works wonderfully that check-in is blocked if there are ModelCHECK errors.However, we have an additional requirement which we have not yet managed to meet:Under certain circumstances, new models are created in which the ModelCHECK is not executed and therefore the two parameters MC_ERRORS and MODEL_CHECK are not created (this is intentional).These models should not be considered by the gatekeeper at che

Hi, I need to export the CAD structure in the same format of the Single Level report in structure tab. (picture) I have a lot of assemblies to export and I'm looking for a query that export the model tree of multiple CAD files. Anyone know of a way to do this?    

Hi All, if anyone could help me out with this scenario it would be of great help. Currently I am working in a clustered environment with apache load balancer. I have customized windchill logout functionality and I am getting logoff option and session is getting ended when I perform logoff action. I have two slaves and a master where when load balancer switches from slave 1 to slave 2 windchill throws error 'you are not authorized to view this file'. I then shut down slave 2 and worked only with slave 1 everything was working fine.    I have configured on monolithic servers on both Windows as well as RHEL servers but first time I tried with cluster environment.    Can anyone let me know what might be the possible error because of which I am getting this abnormal behaviour of Windchill? And also how should I proceed with the form based authentication on Windchill and is it good to configure form based authentication on a clustered environment? 

On Windchill 11 M030. Sometimes, when WGM client starts up, it will lock up and be in "not responding" mode. Usually this happens when we exit WGM and come back in the morning. We can recover by deleting the wfs cache as defined in the locaiton PTC_WFS_CACHE. Even though we remove WFS cache, the WGM client seems to be able to recreate it with the unchekced in models. I am curious to see if others see this issue.of WGM client locking up or not responding on V11 M030. Thanks for sharing.  

I have have navigated to the information page of a part and selected  the 'Structure' tab ->  and opened any part then it opens in a window with 'Structure' tab selection by default . Now I need to open the window with 'Details' tab selection. 

After Problem Report creation , Promotion Request creation, a notification is displayed through a transparency banner. To close this banner, you have to click on the opposite side. Esc  button is not available to go faster.... Is it possible to deactivate this popup notification? BR

We are looking to change our process so that when you set a WTPart as an End Item it takes on a different lifecycle.  At the moment all of our parts and cad data use a simple lifecycle of InWork, Released, Obsolete. However we use End Items for our Catalogue/top level parts which can be in other states such as Legacy parts or marked for Future Release. OOTB when creating a WTPart there appears to be no option to set a different workflow when the part is marked as an End Item, is it possible, presumably it will be something set in the OIR?.  We could of course change the Lifecycle once created but that's an extra step that most users shouldn't be required to know about or do.  Thanks in advance for any help.  Paul

I've created a number of parts, and realized I don't include a version number (so it entered the default ###.1). Is it possible to change this property, or will I need to delete then remake the parts?   Thanks for the help

Hi, As far as I know the Password Policy are applyed when users are added to groups. Is there any possibility to apply the Password Policy upon user/password creation (At this point, customer wants that the password policy verify whether the password complies with customer's password policy ) ?   Thanks in advance

I have taken the default file based versioning file and swapped the MILSTD section to be first and the Numeric section to be second. Simple cut and paste in the XML editor. But when I go to load the file back into Windchill, I get the following messages.   e:\SetupFiles\Versioning>java wt.series.LoadFileBasedSeries xenergy_versioning -loadWARNING: Loading will overwrite existing Series XML.File-based series XML file was not found or is empty: xenergy_versioningFile-based series XML file could not be loaded: xenergy_versioning e:\SetupFiles\Versioning>   Besides the question of what is wrong with my file or the load command, do I need to actually edit and reload the version file? I want to have Alpha revisions first, then at some point we go to a production release of Numeric versions starting at 0. It is my understanding that the versioning file must be traversed from top to bottom and cannot jump back up higher. The default value  range for the version is set by u

I need some help. I created a relatively simple workflow (reused from another workflow we have) that takes a file, changes the state to Obsolete, moves it to a separate folder and starts a timer. After the timer is done, an activity is launched asking an Assignee to take some action. When that's completed, another timer starts followed by another activity (same as the first one) and then the workflow ends.  There are no loops in the workflow. There's barely any code! The only code that exists is the "move file to folder" java code.  Somehow every time I go to initiate this workflow it initiates and then continues to do so on its own until i disable the workflow template. Now that I know to look for this, I normally catch it after it's only initiated about 200 times or so. The issue is also that the activities sends an email and the first time this happen, Windchill sent me 1800 emails before I was able to shut down the workflow.  Am I missing something easy here? Where e

Hi, every day I need to restart my Windchill Server because all queues are stopped. The error message in log files is:   2018-06-12 00:05:00,033 ERROR [commonScheduleQueue.SchedulingThread] com.ptc.wa.create.WAReportCreationManager Administrator - Report generation could not complete successfully after 5 tries 2018-06-12 00:05:06,210 INFO  [WfPropagationQueue.PollingThread] wt.system.out Administrator - NO All Activities are executed --> GO BACK 2018-06-12 00:05:06,694 WARN  [QueueCheckerThread-28] wt.jmx.notif.queue  - Time=2018-06-12 00:05:04.897 +0200, Name=QueueNotifier, SourceObjectName=com.ptc:wt.subsystem=Monitors,wt.monitorType=Queues,Name=WfPropagationQueue, class=class javax.management.Notification, type=wt.queue.QueueWatcherMBean.exceededWaitingEntriesThreshold, userData=25, message=There are 25 queue entries waiting to be executed in queue WfPropagationQueue, JVM Name=3416@SRVPLMAPP110, Queue Info=[AveEntryExecTimeSeconds=0.048,EntryExecutionTime

All,   Getting this error after 4.0 was pushed to my laptop by our IT group. I start up Creo and this is in the browser window:   If this error persists, it is possible that this site uses an unsupportedprotocol or cipher suite such as RC4 (link for the details), which is notconsidered secure. Please contact your site administrator.   WC will not start.   Folks are MIA already because of upcoming 4th of July week. But I gotta work. So ...If there is something I can fix? BTW...I have no admin rights.   Wayne

I am working on a report to show each line of the "Tasks for Change Process" table with the dates and times.  Our workflow has a Rework routing option.  If a user sends the workflow back on a Rework then for every Rework there is another line in that table.   The problem is each task in the report shows the date of the last Rework.  I.e.: If there are 3 Rework lines then all 3 lines in my report shows the same date and time of the last Rework.   Is there any way to have the tasks show the correct date and time for each of the instance?

One of our legacy systems has crashed that was running Windchill 9.1 M050 software but the SQL system is still functioning. It appears that there was no backup. What I’m trying to do is export the CAD data from the SQL database. It appears that the database was never setup right as all the files are stared in BLOB in the database.   I’ve been able to write the query below that relates the columns from the tables in the database.   What I’m unsure of is how to get a usable file out of the BLOB data and write it to a file?   What I’ve read is that it must be converted to something varbianary>bianary>hex or something?   --query binding tables-- select ad.fileName --table column with file name-- , sd.lobLoc --table column with file data this needs to be contents of file-- , e.nameB2folderingInfo --table column with folder name I’d be happy if everything was in a single folder this would just be nice to separate it to sub folders-- from --everything below relates t

Hello everyone AND PTC,The context:Global numbering scheme for all EPMDocument. Our policy is to automatically allocate a sequential number to any new CAD file created. The EPMDocument get assigned the same number than the cad file without the extension. This is unique across our entire Windchill regardless of the context. Our business process is so that Number (Part number) is generated when creating the CAD. This number is then unique across all other systems such as ERP.That is, if I start creating a new part for a new design in a project, the Number is allocated "forever".When we were with Windchill 9.1, everything worked perfectly fine. We could create new CAD/EPMDoc in project, send them to PDM without the number being changed (users could not change it and the system did not change it all).  We upgraded to 10.1 M040 in June 2014. During testing we noticed that Windchill behaved differently. When an EPMDoc is created in ProjectLink and send to PDM, Windchill allocated a new