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Hello everyone,   I want to customaiz our WTpart & EPm-Doc.- layout so that we can see the Promotion request Approver on the side. But i can´t find the right (WT_CN_Approver) in the attributelist in the type & attribute administration.   Is this even possible?   Thanke ahead for your time.   Sincerly   Philipp  

We are planning to configure URL https://<alias.com>/Windchill . We are NOT planning to use default port 443 as it is not available for users other than root in linux. Instead we would like to use port 4430 but need to hide port number in URL and still would be able to use URL https://<alias.com>/Windchill . How do I achieve this? Thanks in Adavnce.

Hello.Was planned by company to allow Electrical Engineers (No UWGM for there Application) to use Import from Spreadsheet Functionality to build their Product Structures.However OOTB IMport from Spreadsheet seems to only Work if a User is a Product Manager (i.e. Full Control)If I make a user who (Member) that has ability to Create Parts and End Items; The Import from Spreadsheet Wizard fails saying the use does not have enough access...What Access Control would I need to grant the Users to allow a Regular User to use "Import From Spreadsheet"orWhat kinid of Workaround should I use? I could try and make a Loaded User Role with FC Access, that also Denies FC for all other States other than the first one;Brian Sullivan

Greetings Windchillers.I’m trying to customize the task view on the home page. I’m wondering if there is a way to set up a view to just see a particular group of tasks such as open tasks for incoming Problem Reports?   I've been playing with itI was able to sort by PBO column and get all PR, CR, CNs.     I've done various views but none seem to get to the meat of the matter; I really want just Open Triage PR Tasks in that particular view of the My Tasks table.  I wonder if I could add an Alias Attribute to the PR and sort for that?   Any ideas how that might be done. We want a person to be able to open their home page and set a view of My Tasks to show the Tasks they need to action for their particular job function.TIA - JamesWindchill 11.0 M030 CPS08WGM 11.0 M030Inventor Pro 2017Windows 10

How is the tab and attribute panel invoked? I can find action/model for it. Please check below screenshot!

This has long been an issue with the multiple concurrent workflows in the change process. If I assign a task to the user in a change notice workflow, I can grant rights to modify the PBO. But what if they need to modify things in the affected objects table like Inventory Dispositions?  That is not the PBO and there could be many objects or change tasks. Cannot be handled simply with a workflow variable.  I guess I can do it with lifecycle states on the change task but is there another way assuming the change task is locked for most other people?

Dear all,   Thank you for your cooperation in advance. We want to install PDMLink with EC2(app server) and Oracle on AWS-RDS.But we don't know what values should we input on 'ORACLE_HOME install directory' and 'DNS host name'. We tried sometime, but PSI showed error messages.How should we proceed to install?Please give us some advise.

Hi, Can anyone help me with enabling delta indexing for Windchill Product Analytics?   For delta indexing, in com.ptc.insight.rdr.search.solr.provider.config.properties I have put a cron expression for Supplier Part to run every minute. This is what it looks like : com.ptc.insight.solr.supplierpart.delta.index.service.batch.size=3000com.ptc.insight.solr.supplierpart.delta.index.service.cron.expression=0 * * ? * *   After restarting the virgo - server, I am able to see the change in Scheduled Jobs in the UI. However, modifications to a Supplier Part are not reflected until I go for manual full indexing.   Can someone please help? Any suggestions would be appreciated.   Regards.

Greetings Windchillers We are considering using effectivity in our Change Management. The effectivity date will be read by middleware and sent to our SAP system.  We have occasions to hold on to ECNs here for a while, so we set the effectivity date out 10 years when we start the ECN.    Our Change Process is to do Engineering work, set files to Release, continue work in SAP, and finally when all is done Resolve the ECN.   I'm wondering what affect, if any, this could have on a WTPart in Windchill itself.  It would be set to Release (lifecycle) but have an effectivity date some time in the future.   Any pitfalls?  I'm thinking Windchill would ignore it.TIA,James  Windchill 11.0 M030 CPS08, WGM 11.0 M030, Inventor Pro 2017, Windows 10  

Hi All, as per the Windchill Upgrade guide and windu guide it tells that after running windu from windchill shell a file called GatherSourceUpgrade.properties file will be created. But I am not able to find this file nor the directory  after running windu. A log file with no error was generated but the mentioned file not the directory was created. Should this file be manually created or will it be automatically generated? If it has to be created manually then what are the information that should be populated within this file? Any documentation regarding this would be of great help. Thank you in advance.  I have attached the section from windu guide that talks about mentioned file and folder.

Hello,   To start with, I am beginner in Thingworx. I just had my thingworx 7.1.19 installed with postgres as database. I brought up the UI and can able to navigate around and do basic entity creation like thing, thingtemplate etc...   Now trying to import the PTC Windchill extension (ptc-windchill-extension-1.6) into thingworx, but it fails and all I can see in log is below error message, not sufficient to troubleshoot, not sure what I am missing.   1. Is there any compatibility issue. 2. Am I missing any steps before importing the PTC windchill extension. ----- Wrapped by: com.thingworx.extensibility.ExtensibilityException: An unexpected error occurred while uploading extension: null at com.thingworx.webservices.ExtensionPackageUploader.beginImport(ExtensionPackageUploader.java:183) ~[thingworx-platform-common-7.1.9-b54.jar:na] at com.thingworx.webservices.ExtensionPackageUploader.service(ExtensionPackageUploader.java:101) ~[thingworx-platform-common-7.1

Hi all, Our business has a need to assign folder location via an OIR with a unique need: assign the location "incrementally" from the location where the create new object action was started. If the user has navigated to /Default/Project A and a subfolder in Project A is called Documents, then what are the OIR statemenr required to set the location in the OIR incrementally, i.e.   folder.id = <current location of action start>/Document   The intent is to use the OIR to support multiple subfolders locations based on where the create action was triggered:. Default     Project A         Documents     Project B         Documents     Project C         Documents   TIA

I am running Windchill 11.0 m030 and just did a test upgrade to CPS06. The area I am testing is the change to File Administration from Java to HTML. I like the new look. However, I am having an issue of Validating a new file vault to Windchill. I created the disk folder years ago and verified that it is still there. I went into the File Administrator and selected New Folder, enter a unique name, and select the proper vault. Then I went to Object, Mount and pasted in the proper disk location. Next I went to Mounts and selected Validate. The system throws an error and in the Mount Status column, it lists Duplicate. It is not a duplicate, I verified that I have not used that same mount on any other folders. Is this a bug in CPS06 or a bug in general to the HTML interface. I never had issues with adding, mounting and verifying a folder under the JAVA interface.

Hi,   I would want to get all the parts from a Drawing EPMDocument from code. Between the part and the drawing there is only a calculated link. But I need all parts (calculated,content...) which are related to the EPMDocument in any way. Is there a helper class that gives me back these links? If not, what are the APIs that I can use to get the 3D models linked to the Drawing, so that I can get the Parts from those?   What I used is: GenericUtilities.getAssociated(document); This won't give me back the calculated links.   Thanks in advance, Tamás

I'm running the WC11 upgrade utility and I'm getting a error on "Disable Downstream Technologies Template" which is preventing me from furthering through the upgrade process. What is Disable Downstream Technologies Template ? What is this referring to?    Thanks,

Hello,   Can anybody tell how to create link to an existing WTDocument at different location in Windchill.And also suggest if there is an API corresponding to this scenario.

Dear Experts,   We are planning to upgrade 10.1 M030 to 11.0 M030 with the SQL server Database. Meanwhile we wanted to change SQL Edition from Enterprise to Standard due to the limited needs [functionality] than it was originally had and also cost incurs for the Enterprise edition.   Please clarify if this is a right approach and share your feedback if any one have done this already.     Thanks Murthi  

Hi All,   If i wish to generate a Windchill Report thereby accessing external tables of database from an external application along with WTDocument or WTPart how would I be doing it ?   Can someone please let me know about the same.   Thanks and Regards, Aditya

Both upstream view (Design) and its downstream view (Manufacturing) version of part using same LC template. In order to create EBOM and MBOM, both designers and manufacturing roles supposed to be configured with same set of access control in Inwork state and some other states.   Designer should be configured with create and modify permissions in Inwork and revise permission in Released state to work on EBOM.   Manufacturing role should be configured with create and modify permissions in Inwork and revise permission in Released state to work on MBOM.   I am looking ways to prevent Designers modifying MBOM and also to prevent manufacturing roles modifying EBOM or even deny creation of Design version of part.

What would be the best procedure for switching revisions schemes between a development phase and a production phase? Our development phase would be alpha characters and at production would switch to numeric.

I get this message in event manager after trying to upload changes for an assembly in Windchill.  "Referential integrity violations occurred for this operation: Object "CAD Document Reference Link..."   This has happened after I had to delete multiple rows of instances off of a family table. I can still open and save the assemblies and instances in Creo, but when I try to upload the changes this happens.  How can I fix this error? Tried looking at similar problems people have had in this community, but I have not had much success finding a solution.

Hello, in our ChangeManagement workflow we have several tasks (type: work-item) in several life-cycles. The question I have is if it´s possible to create a Subscription that is triggered by the status of one of those tasks. I already saw that it is possible for changing the status of a life-cycle for instance, but it is also possible to configure this for simple tasks?   Thanks for any help!   Tobias

This is a customer requirement that just like opening CAD documents from CREO, why can't we open MS documents from windchill and edit within windchill instead of using Windchill Desktop Integration or downloading files and checkin again since a copy will be saved on local drive.

I have say one folder for CAD models, another folder for Specification documents , another Folder for BOM parts and similarly more folders.  As there are customer-specific attributes in each of these document types, I want the table views of each folder differently so that I can filter the documents list based on their individual attributes.   For example, BOM parts view to be filtered by "Source - Make or Buy". or other custom attribute of "Part". But this is not applicable to other folders - for example Specification documents will not have these attributes. So their folder table view will list these column headings , but with empty row values and so does not look good. If I had selected "part" as type in defining table view for "BOM parts" it will be total empty in other folders' table view which is not obviously not acceptable.   Thanks for your reply. Ravi    

I have soft attribute created in a sub-type of part. I want to populate its drop-down from rbinfo file. I dont want to use global enum or legal list. Any Suggestions ?