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Dear All, I have created e signature in Windchill. After approval there will be reviewer name in workflow records, can I add these column values (reviewer name and review date) in my drawing files without customization? These column values are in workitem type and esignature attribute. How can I map these in my EPMDocument and display in my drawing file which is in both .drw and .pdf format? Has anyone tried this?

Hi All, I have created WTOrganization by using Windchill API. it was successfully created. When i tried to add Org admin to this newly created Organization found that this Organization is not present under Org Tab. I have check WTORGANIZATION table in DB and found its entry.   How i can get this new organization under my Org Tab ?   Regards, Vivek    

When creating new CAD templates from the interface, you can define values for attributes, which will be preselected when creating new documents based on those templates. Is it possible to define those attribute values also in the XMLs used by LoadFromFile to load the CAD templates and if so, what is the syntax?

Hello together,   we are using Windchill 10.2, but we have a lot of "historical" reliability files which were calculated with Isograph Workbench. Is there a Interface for Windchill available, to load / import these reliability data or is there a way with a mapping table already known ? Beside the file, Workbench can export Pi and Lambda factors for each component.   Thank you.  

Hello,   While performing Classification Search, the number of rows returned in results is based on Preference->Search-> Latest Version Search (Yes/No). I get all the data when the option is set to NO. Although when set to YES, the result set gets truncated while displaying an "Incomplete Results" Message. When the data gets truncated in search results and a lot of rows do not show up, the same rows show up when data is refined using Facets. This tells me that there may be something to do with the number of Search results that can be displayed. I checked the QueryLimit Values in wt and db properties and they seem fine. Any idea why this may happen? Also, the 2 seem unrelated - The table size limit showing up when the Search preference is set up a YES.  

I have an excel list that came out of our ERP system (name and rev).  I need to check rev level against Windchill.  How do I get Windchill to take this list and fetch current latest rev level?

My requirement is that if a folder in PDMLink product folder structure is empty it should be of "RED" colour otherwise normal colour.Is it possible to achieve this?Best Regards,Aamir

You are Invited! Register now!   What:  Philosophy of Product Structure in Windchill   When: 24th May 2018, 11 AM – 12 PM EST   Webinar Description : In this webinar, Heather will be reviewing the basics of  Product Structure: “Why”, “How”, “When”, and “What If” of Product Structure     Who: Heather Pomerene, Orbital ATK   How to Register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7285887803786584323   About Punditas Punditas has partnered with PTC/USER organization to bring these webinars to you.  Punditas offers an Analytics & Insights platform for Enterprise Software to deliver Personalized, Contextual and Structured information. Punditas Advisor guides Creo and Windchill Users with  Tips, Tricks, Best Practices, Tutorials, Open Issues, Closed Issues, Discussions, etc. so the Users can explore, learn and use PTC software efficiently.

Hi all,   I have seen the help menu regarding the problem with multi owner part files and the link is attached below, https://support.ptc.com/help/windchill/wc110_hc/whc_en/index.html#page/Windchill_Help_Center%2FMCPR_Multi-ownerLimitations.html%23   According to that, we are also facing the problem but I came to know that there are two different solutions that can be done even though the solutions are clear verbally.  I need  help from some of you, if possible   1. At the site/industry level, we can block the process of the updating the process, if EBOM structure is not developed 2. We can create some custom code for pop up window to select the required part & generate the EBOM.   These two procedures are quite interesting  but I need some support for developing EBOM structures without having laborious process that we are doing at present.   The problem is documented and attached to this post.  Please check it and kindly help.   &n

Greetings, Has anyone attempted to create viewables with the CAD software by selecting that as you check in an Inventor CAD model?  We intend to use a cadworker to publish files inside Windchill, but were considering this method instead.   James Windchill 11.0 M030 CPS08WGM 11.0 M030Inventor Pro 2017Windows 10

The"new view" action should be under Actions menue directelly and not Under the sbmenu Actions\menue.   So, this action does not create a very new object.However, the action new version create realy a new object is Under menue Action.The action  semantics  does not respect the actions a classification.   So we propose to change this action Under Actions menue.

I have a Little excel database, and I would like to read the "Status" and the "Version+Iteration" of drawing. Also the description, maintaining some kind of Read-Only link from Windchill, I suppose that somethiing like DTI "DEsktop integration"  that do an OOTB from office applications, but is possible to do ?

Hi,   I have been using this excellent yet old tool to align the implementations to the business strategy. I have a hard copy of 6.2 which now looks, well as if it has been used a lot (and it has).  I have been trying to find a pdf version of it but I could only find 6.1 and discovered there is a version 7. I was wondering if someone had a pdf of version 7 to share. I wondered if they have implemented what I added myself to 6.2    Thanks a lot

Hello, everyone   We are going to do some development based on Windchill's OOTB.One of their requirements is as follows. Someone in the user checks in the object.Can I create a separate document or CAD tab to announce who checked in and which files were checked in for checked-in objects? For example, User A, who is part of Product1, checked in part1.All users belonging to Product1 can notice that User A has checked in part1.Notices can be displayed on the homepage in the same form as a mission. Is this possible? If so, what should I develop?   I'll wait to your help.Thanks Kind Regards

Hi All, We are migrating from another system to Windchill. In our current system uniqueness is defined by 3 things: Type, Name (number) and Revision. i.e. TNR. So, we took advantage of this in our existing system and defined schema (soft types in Windchill speak) like PL, PRD and PRD-CU as we use a number of document type designators in our MRP system. So, now we have 3 types all having the same name and all having the same revision just different type designators: PL  1234 A PRD  1234 A PRD-CU  1234 A each containing unique content. Works well in our current system as the type makes them unique from each other; integrators have told us there is no way to do this in Windchill. Their solution is to put prefixes (PL, PRD, PRD-CU etc.) in our Names and Numbers and add an attribute with the "real" name (doc number) and search for that. Please tell me there is a more elegant solution than the one above (prefixes???) . I thought the answer may lie

Greetings, I have an odd little problem.  We are in process of our final testing of our new Windchill 11.0 (M030 CPS08) environment.  One of our users can no longer connect to Windchill using Inventor Pro 2017 on her Windows 7 laptop.   Last week we uninstalled her WGM (11.0 M030) and re-installed it. It seemed to function properly and could 'see' Inventor 2017, but when you attempted to 'register' it, it did not quite function.  If you opened WGM, it would produce the error in the Warning image below.  I'm not certain why a shared folder would be a problem.  If you attempted to open an Inventor file, it would give you the error in Error_Image below, then the error in Error_Image_2 below. These errors occurred after we had purged all browser caches, the Java cache, and had re-installed WGM for Inventor.  Other computers access Windchill just fine via WGM and Inventor.     

PDML & PjtL 11.0 M030, Dual Tier, SQL Server 2014, Win Server 2012 R2   PSI installation on Windchill/Application Server fails with errors; FATAL 2018-04-11 15:19:08 - create schema returned non-zero: 1 DEBUG 2018-04-11 15:19:08 - Installation is Aborting. The installation cannot continue. FATAL 2018-04-12 06:19:53 - Aborting installation. FATAL 2018-04-12 06:19:53 - Installation is Aborting. The installation cannot continue. FATAL 2018-04-12 06:19:53 - Error during schema creation. See the logs for more information.   Discussions here and on the Knowledge base indicate that the schema was previously created. In this case, it was not. Summary installation steps: - DB Server> SQL install/configure, PTC SI Run (no schema or data created) - App Server> PTC SI Run (Adv SQL option, create schema and load base data selected)   Other than schema and base data not being created, what other installation steps are missing? (shortcuts are missing, not sur

Hi All,Have anybody have created this kind of Senario ??Please let me know. I am Inserting a Wizard Item and in 1 single Wizard i am trying to persist 2 Object (Part and LineItem) in the Part Wizard.Line Item is a Modeled Object.I am facing some error while completing the Part Wizard.Nested exception is: wt.util.WTException:CreateEditFormProcessorHelper.getTypeInstance() - sourceObj must be aTypeInstance, TypeInstanceIdentifier, or TypeIdentifier wt.util.WTException: CreateEditFormProcessorHelper.getInProgressItemInstance():Unable to create an in-progress instance of the object.Please let me know any idea ??

In Thingworx Navigate (logged in as admin), I have gone into 'View Part Structure Tailoring' and added 'Quantity' in to the selected attributes.   On viewing the Part Structure Tile and searching for a part number, I can see the Quantity attribute header in the table but no value appears under it. How do I get the values to show?   Thanks in Advance

When using the MIL-HDBK-217 FN2 calculation model, each part has different Pi factors in the prediction data pane. How do I get these Pi factors that were used to print in a report? I don't see them in the list of available selections.

 I need to prohibit users (designers) from changing their vault preference. Thus, I need to lock user vault preference for few users. I see that importing user preference xml file does not have lock option that works. Is there way I can achieve this.? 

For international shipments, we've been asked to manage (assign and document) in Windchill:- export tariff codes (HTS)- homeland defense codes (ECCN)- country of origin (CoO)Is anyone doing this or similar? What approach?

I'm trying to pin down the exact meaning of context in the below.  It seems to me that they are saying something like lifecycle state change, and not moving a component from one context (or product) to another.  I think these Associated Process Objects become 'part' of the associated Change Object.  For example if you create an ECN from an ECR, the Affected Objects can be populated to the ECN from the ECR, and the ECR becomes an Associated Process Object on the ECN.  So context here doesn't seem to mean product.  Any ideas?   Out of Windchill help: The Associated Process Objects table contains associated changes with parent and child relationships for a context change. Process links support closure through a workflow process, so the objects can be closed at the same time if each object is in the correct state.

The Design Review Working Group which was formed recently has been at work for the last few months. The goal of this group is to identify and document the key components and business processes needed for a successful MBD Design Review.    This Working Group started with the definition of Design Review – “What does Design Review” mean? Here are some definitions that we have received from the members thus far.  We would love to hear from you as well. Send us your thoughts by replying to this thread.

Does anyone know if Windchill keeps track of objects that are deleted? Maybe in some audit table? I need to find out who deleted a particular object (and when).The object no longer exists (all versions). I was able to find an unreferenced copy in the file vault.Thanks!Tom U.