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Hello, I have a own Database system which I want to integrate into Windchill (11.0 F000) Search. Can somebody point me to a HowTo or give me an example how to add a custom datastore to the searchable objects in Windchill search?   In the Advanced Search I want to add a own Datatype (lets Say XYZItem) If that Item is selected an additional search call to my database System should be fired and I want to add the result that I get from my system to the Windchill search result.   If it's not possible to do it like that, it would also be nice to know how to create a custom search tab to integrate a search in only my system into Windchill.   Thank you, Martin

Ran Upgrade Manager to go from 10.0m040 to 11.0m030 and finally made it all the way hrough. However I have 2 issues:   1)When I start up Windchill 11, my Method Server log quickly fills with errors all seem to be repeats of this: ERROR [WVSScheduleQueue.SchedulingThread] wt.wvs.schedule.ScheduledThumbnailProcessor Administrator - Skipping DerivedImage   2) The state and version information on a detial info page show ???version??? and ???state??? instead of the information that should be there.    

Someone uploaded a file and the filename contains a percent sign so Windchill won't allow anyone to download it.  The person that uploaded it is no longer here.  How do I access this file?  Can I rename it to remove the percent signs from the filename so it can be downloaded?  We have Windchill 11.   I've seen this problem before and I think we had to change the file name some how but I'm not sure what to do.  Thanks.

Good morning all,   I am new to Windchill so please have patience with me.  We're on v10.1, and I have been asked to look into whether or not we can use it as a document management system for our IT, Systems, Vendor and Maintenance documentation.  I've used enterprise level EDM systems before and from what I've seen Windchill does not have many of the features I would expect, but it does have document version control which we want.   I understand it's more for projects and manufacturing and we use it for that at the moment.  I would like to be able to store documents in a basic simple folder structure and then use a metadata search to pull them together by topic or by area or by system or by whatever I want, which really needs something like a keyworking facility.  Can Windchill do that?  We have a huge amount of documentation that whist not related to a single project, relates to the hardware and systems that the projects run on and  we wan

We recently upgraded to Windchill 11.0. Since doing so we are unable to create pdf representations. Has anyone else seen this error? How can I fix this error? I am attaching the complete error log. Note: trying to create a pdf on a regular DITA xml file, not a DITA map file.

Hello, Is there standard procedure or tool to split single instance of Windchill to 2 instance of Windchill?   One firm going to split 2 firms. They want to split their data. There were multiple ways I think we can split data into 2 Windchill instance. I am curious to know if there are any procedure/tool already available to do that from PTC.   Thanks in advance.

We are currently migrating to Windchill now and we need to put our own part numbers on files before checking into Windchill. My problem lies in my current mapkey (pre-Windchill) where I open a start part, skip the name pop up which assigns a PRT0001 name and then the mapkey continues to run through modifying all the parameters in the start part and then when all that is complete it will do a "rename" function to change the name from PRT0001 to our own numbering. And now while playing in the initial stages of Windchill, it seems we must put our new name in the initial pop up screen that my mapkey skips or Windchill gives the name 0000000001 and then the rename function is no longer available in the Creo session and the part must be checked in to Windchill and then go through a ridiculous amount of steps to rename the part in the workspace. So I don't mind putting the name in on the initial pop up but the problem in the mapkey is now that any way I have tried to create the mapkey to

Hi,   After the Installation of CPS09 on Windchill 11.0 M020, now I have an error to tailoring Part List Attribute on PTC Navigate 1.4.   In the log of Composer for Navigate, I have this message : [context: com.thingworx.webservices.context.HttpExecutionContext@756817c0][message: Unable to Invoke Service GetDisplayableAttributes on PartsListAccessAppThing : JSON Server error HTTP 404     Thanks for your idea Regards

I am using PTC Windchill Quality Soutions 10.2. On the FMEA Worksheet tab, I have inserted a number of functions, functional failures, etc. When I right click on one of these items, the Delete Record arrow is there, but all of the options (Function, Functional Failure, etc) are all greyed out. It will let me delete all functions, but obviously I don't want to do that. How do I delete a function on the FMEA Worksheet?

Hi all, I have installed windchill muktiple number of times but this time I got stuck at a place and I didnot understand what actually was happening.  Situation: While installing PDMLink on windows server 2012, LAN was connected. Internet was working fine. Static IP address was also provided. But when ldap server and windchill dns server registered name entry came it automatically took ip address starting with 169.xxx.xxx.xxx instead of 'hostname.domainname'. As per my understanding usually when the internet link is broken ip address automatically changes to 169.xxx.xxx.xxx. But when all those were working fine why did it take that ip address? I completed the installation, windchill was accessible on server but when I tried to connect to client machine it gave me error and connection was failed (connection was broken/unable to establish). In host file I had configured standard "static ip and hostname.domainname" format asusaul.   Why did this happen? What is the problem? Can

Hey gang!WC10.0 M040, Creo 2.0 M050SO, these calculated links to drawings are cause us trouble.Have any of you found a way around these issues?It appears that any drawing the Owner EPM doc is related by 'Drawings Reference' to gets added as a calculated link to its WTPart, and you cannot remove this link.I set the preference Operations-AutoAssociate- Create Content Links for Drawings to Yes, this had no effect.This causes us these problems.1. 'temporary what-if' drawings are added2. Collectors in Revise, Move, Promote, Affected objects, etc. collect these Undesired calculated linked objectsa. Users then must be very diligent3. Wt.Maturity.getPromotionSeeds also collects these objects, so my transitional check of Checked out Promotion Objects has an exception if a Calculated linked object is checked out, even though it is not a promotable.[cid:image001.png@01CF39E8.DC85DCF0]Kind regards,Vaughn McDaniel IIIEngineering Services Group - PLM/CAD Applications[cid:image002.png@01CF39E8.DC85DC

Hi, i am trying to get kowlegde about the aspects of what an integration of Creo Illustrate 4.2 and Windchill will mean regarding the actual work to set up the integration and what I need to consider regarden the environment/set up my company has in Windchill.   Is it straight forward or very much to consider/think of? What are those thing?

Hi   i customized a epm document in productso, creo makes a file that numbering like 'creo-000000032'and file name get from number   i have 2 questions.   1. can i more customized about each type?for example, creo make a part file that numbering like 'creo-part-0000032'other case, if creo makes a drawing file, this file get number like 'creo-2d-0000033' is it possible? if it is posiible , please give me a way   2. can i makes rule that library file read is possible, but download impossible?when i get cad data from libraryi can save in my local space as back-up file[formatted xxxx.prt.1] can i makes rule that library file read is possible, but download impossible?it means team member didn't download libfile to team member's workspaceonly read, or it can be used to create assemblies   thanks, good day

Hi,   I will preface this question by saying that my company is replacing our current PLM system (implemented in 2008) with Windchill 11.0.   In our current system, any part attrubute that needs a unit of measure label, uses a completely separate attribute to do so. For example, if we were to input a parts Rated Power on creation, you would first input the rated power, and then select a quanity from a drop down list. This drop down list could have 6 or 7 different available UOM options. The part is then created, and the UOM is suffixed of the measurement.   My question is how other companies are handling or have handled this scenario? Are you using Windchills measurement system capabilities? Or do you just use a separate attribute with a global enmerated list to "label" the attribute, like we're doing today. I'm also open to any suggestions on how we should proceed.   Thanks! -Brandon

can i distinguish creo type via Windchill EPMDocument? if i check-in assembly file to windchill, it get number like ASM-0000032.asmother case i check-in drawing file to windchill, it get number like DRW-0000033.drwlikewise i check-in part file to windchill, it get number like PRT-0000034.prt   can i configure when check-in at Creo it is possible to auto add a string by each type?  

Hello, Does anybody has any experience getting data from Teamcenter or another PLM and expose it in Thingworx Navigate? How do you recomend would be the best approach to do that? Thanks,Sal

Is there any way to directly list each of the promotion targets in the email sent from a promotion request activity?  In a perfect world I would like each of these to be hyperlinks straight to the primary representation of each object (one click to open directly in Creo View.)  Has anyone ever managed to do something like this?

We are currently on Windchill\Intralink 10.2 and will be upgrading to Windchill\PDMLink so that we can manage SolidWorks, NX and AutoCAD files alongside our Creo files. Ultimatley we will be bringing in a PTC reseller to help with the upgrade but wanted to get my feet wet with what is reauired. I have successfully installed Intralink 10.2 on a test server but am at a lost on how to upgrade\convert it to a PDMLink installation?   Would the process involve installing a fresh PDMLink setup and then run a migration utility to bring in the Intralink 10.2 files and metadata?

lets say you have an assembly containing of three parts that are generated as independed WT parts.  Now, all the parts have their technical drawing in the WT part and i want to gather them in a file/folder to save time when printing. This could be done by printing the drawings and puting them in a binder, the only problem is that you have to remember to update the drawings in the binder when making a change in the part.  Is it possible to create a folder in windchill that automaticcly updates the drawings when the part is modified?

When creating a new promotion request, is there any way to limit the select participants step so it only allows one user to be selected per role?

All,I'm working on a customization where I have several Teams defined in a Product context. When someone creates a change object, there's an IBA call Plants Affected where they select value(s) from. Each Team defined has roles / participants defined that represent each factory. Through code in the workflow, I'm removing the corresponding roles from the Change Object Team. I then look at the plants affected to determine which team(s) need to be assigned. Using the TeamHelper.service.reteam(Change Object) I'm updating the team. I need to be able to merge the teams together and assign the result to the change object. What I found is that the reteam method merges the context team with the last team processed. Is there anyone that has coded something like this? And if so, how did you go about coding it?Regards,Paul Sweet

We are trying to consolidate out Creo support files into Windchill...So, since I can't "import" them, I figure I would just 'add" them in as new documents. I'm not sure how successful that was as I used the "general" DocType when creating.MY QUESTIONs - has anybody already done this? If so, what 'type" did you use when creating the wtdocs? Is there another way?Any comments would be most appreciated.gary

Upgrade from 10.2 to 11.0 completed successfully. Setup replica server where the master uses HTTPS. Generated new master key and located on replica, imported master cert into replica, imported replica cert into master. Master site includes HTTPS:\\<server name>.customer.com\Windchill \servlet\WindchillGW in replica's site and wt.properties. Replica server - broadcasts successfully. Vaults - mount and validate successfully. Replication rules -  established. Reset Replication -  set for site Replication schedule - established, enabled and ready. Replication Jobs - Status Completed, Items Replicated - 0, Total Items - 0. replQueue - Started and Enabled.   A case has been open for 5 weeks. Several webex's have validated the setup.  Customer's network mgt. claims there is nothing blocking comm between master and replica.   Has anyone ever seen anything like this?   Any suggestions on where to look next?    

Windchill Upgrade ErrorHow to fix the Problem?2016-07-09 10:12:29,883 INFO  [UpgradeEventFirer] com.ptc.windchill.upgrade.logging.UpgradeFrameworkLogger - Migrator EXECUTING: WNC Type Definition Updater (10.0 to 10.2):830541160-1340209263945-1228665906-44-14-253-132 (0.0%) - WNC Type Definition Updater (10.0 to 10.2) started2016-07-09 10:12:35,123 ERROR [UpgradeEventFirer] com.ptc.windchill.upgrade.logging.UpgradeFrameworkLogger - Message: Error in method server code:java.lang.Exception: Exception of type 'java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException' was generated on the server with message 'null' at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at com.ptc.windchill.upgrade.updates.directives.MigratorMethod.invoke(MigratorMethod.java:131) at com.ptc