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I have "dm_overwrite_contents_on_update" set to "yes", and an overwrite in Intralink worked just fine, every time......yet now in W/C update doesn't actually do anything? Huh?

Hi everyone, this particular part while customizing is confusing me a lot. Please help!   Q. is it possible to restrict users from accessing CAD/NonCAD documents in different life cycle states in windchill pdmlink?   Example Scenario: I have users userA, userB, userC, userD, userE. I have groups groupA(uploader), groupB(viewer), groupC(approver) I have defined custom profiles and created teams also.   Lifecycle states: Inwork -> Approved -> Obsolete   What I want is userB should be restricted to view files only in Approved state and not other files(CAD/NonCAD) in Inwork or Obsolete state. I have created a lifecycle state and designated roles and access control to only read to userB and added this lifecycle in OIR but is of no good?    Am I doing it right? or should I run any command after changing OIR to implement those changes? Kindly help.

WC 11, M020 Not able to Revise a part with a Document (but can revise each separately). This is odd, why would the Revise option with associated document not be allowed but the user can revise the part and the document individually?   It works in our test environment. Same ACR, Lifecycle, Actions per Role. User is in same role.   Secured Action. You do not have necessarily authorization...

So I just completed our production upgrade from Windchill 10.2 to Windchill 11.0.  Of course there are always the little things that pop up.  Right now we are seeing goofy things out of our browsers.  An example is when we go to a wtPart page and go to the where used, nothing show up.  If we select the any of the view drop downs (either Latest or All) the where used list shows up.  If we refresh or hit F5, they disappear only to come back when clicking a view.  This happens with multiple browser types.  Clearing the browser cache.  Clearing the participant cache.  Anyone have any ideas for this?

Hi Everyone,I am wondering if we can control who can create a wtpart at a given state (In Work), but now allow a larger group of users can can revise to that same Lifecycle but not create at that lifecycle?We have a solution in adding a new "creation" lifecycle but wondering if we can do the same with access controls.This is in 10.1

Hello,   I was wondering if any one had a working example of how to create the windows symbolic link for vault when performing an Upgrade.  Since the source and target paths are different, and they cannot satisfy the upgrade process for being identical, I am told.   I found this discussion in regards to Creo, which tells me I have the right command (mklink).   My source is: C:\PTC\Windchill_10.1\VaultsTarget is: D:\ptc\Windchill_11\Vaults   Which would result in the following to make a link or pointer from the c: source directory to the d: target directory:   mklink /D C:\PTC\Windchill_10.1\Vaults D:\ptc\Windchill_11\Vaults   I know I can proceed with a test upgrade without vaults, and I will be doing that.  However, this question will come up again!   Thank you.   Regards,   IG

When a viewable fails to publish, the Details and Content tabs of the model or model drawing maintains the previously created viewable (assuming one existed). Is there a way to delete this viewable from the Details and Content tab upon a publish request failure? Doing so can prevent users from assuming that this viewable is the latest one...the one representing the current version, iteration and state of the model.

What we encounter on a regular basis since we are on Creo3 M120 and WT10.2, is that our users loose saved data.  The files are still present in the local cache, but they vanished from the workspace or appear as ghosts in the workspace. Initially, we disregarded the complaints, but more and more we are convinced there is an integrity problem with the WGM.   Any similar cases in the community?   Thanks,  Hugo.

I ran WinDU in preparation for my upgrade from Windchill 10.0 to 11.0. When I looked in the Windchill logs folder, I noticed all of the log files for every vault folder. I opened them and found in some cases hundreds of this error message.RMI TCP Connection(1797)-192.168.xx.xx: : Possibly corrupted DB: item #<some number> has no file in the folder   This from the WinDU Unrefernced file check. Does anyone have a solution? I do have a PTC call open, but that is another story!  

hello, is it possible to prohibit export from workspace? thanks

Hi All,I am configuring Windchill integration to Oracle EBS using the standard Tibco based ESI.In my Oracle EBS, Oracle Engineering is not configured which means I cannot publish ECN's to it.I want to switch off the ECN publish to Oracle Apps and instead only publish the affected items/BOM's of the ECN.I set the value for the Tibco Global Variable "ESIORAECNEnabled" to "false" expecting it would not attempt to publish ECN.But it still tries to publish ECN and fails although the affected Parts are getting published successfully.What other setting is required to achieve this desired result?Regards,Sameer

We are using the out of the box Windchill-Oracle Apps ESI project file. We use the ECN object in Windchill to release our parts/documents.  The Tibco project keeps failing because it's trying to send the ECN object from Windchill to create the ECO object in Oracle. We don't use ECOs in Oracle, so we don't want  Windchil and ESI to send the ECN data to Oracle or create an ECO in Oracle. Has anyone else done this or have any idea how we can modify the Tibco Designer project to not send the ECN to Oracle?   Thanks in advance

Last night I decided to update to the latest datecode of CREO 3 on my CAD worker machine.  Instead of updating I reinstalled the software.  Now it is not connecting.  I've gone through all the threads on here that I could find and I'm not seeing errors where they are saying to fix.  So right now my CREO workers are down.  I have two workers configured on the same server.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm on Windchill 10.2 m030.  Thanks!

Hello all, We keeping multiple Representations on our EPM Documents. E.g. for all in Work Objects "Latest" Rep. as default  & for Released Reps "Latest released" and keeping the previous "Latest" as 2nd optional Rep.. On details page you are limited to get a choice of those Reps available. Only the default is opened. Do somebody know if there is a way to get that managed in Windchill? I saw from a other application not coming from PTC, that this could be established. In this case when the EPM Doc Rep. is called all availabe ones are listed for having a choice. THX Regards Robert

Hi,   I tried to load a parts list in Navigate, created in Service Information Manager and found below issues.   1. Graphical contents created in Creo Illustrate is not getting displayed 2. Parts List structure created in SIM is not getting displayed 3. Number of character's in Name field is limited   Please let me know how to resolve these issues,   Regards,   Thadeus.D

hi i'm seonho   how to set mail server on a windchill pdmlink?   Windchill Pdmlink setting up a smtp server on self ?Or built smtp server separately and connect to Windchill pdmlink?Is there a way for a Windchill Pdmllink to set up itself for sending mail?   If it have a way to set up own smtp in a Windchill pdmlink, teach me how to thatOr if i need to build a separate smtp server and then use it in Windchill, let me know how to build a separate smtp please I installed Windchill on Windows 7   No matter what i search, only configuration documents are left.Please answer me. anyone ... Thank you.

I'm using Windchill 10.2 M030-CPS04 and have installed Creo View 3.0.  I do not have a full version of Creo running on my computer.  When selecting an assembly in Windchill a separate window opens with the following message:   Install Creo View Client Stop Checking for New Versions   It seems Windchill doesn't know Creo View is installed.  Any ideas on how to resolve?  Thanks.  

Hi All, I am trying to code on Pickers where upon clicking on Find Picker icon for a field the user should be able to see Find Participant wizard opening up where the user will have a drop down to search either for users or groups. Upon searching for users/groups the user can see multiple results in the search results table and the user can select multiple users/groups and view the same in the field corresponding to the Find picker. So in case if any one is aware of the same I do request you all for a sample code or inputs regarding the same so that it could be helpful. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Aditya

Hi, We'd like the Change Request workflow to set the state of the associated Problem Report to something else than "Accepted".  We've already 'streamlined' PR workflow so that all PRs go to state "Accepted" directly. If a PR won't proceed to CR it's set manually to Rejected. However, if CR is made then the PR state is still "Accepted" and therefore more difficult to see which are in process and which are new.   I know, you're asking why not use the Open state for PRs... well, just too much of clicking for the Problem Report Analyzer.   So, is there a way to set up a robot in Change Request workflow to tell the associated PR to go to certain state in the Life Cycle? And of course in the end to Resolved as it is already defined.    

Please see attached screenshot.   Is there a way of customising a tab on a promtion request that means the approver/owner can easily look down the list of drawings/models and see which ones have been marked up - without having to rely on subscriptions filling your mail inbox, or going in to each file and checking for saved annotations?   Many thanks, Dan  

I have installed Oracle 11g, SID is Wind, and Oracle 12c, SID is Wind12, on the same computer.That works fine. and does not cause any issues when I use Windchill 10 and Windchill 11 from different servers. This is in an out-of-the-box installation setting with no production data. Now I want to do an upgrade to Windchill 11 of my production system on the same computer that is running Windchill 10. I am experimenting with a rehosted system. If I use a new loadpoint for Windchill 11, and a different Windchill name, like Windchill11, is that possible? It would make life simpler for my upgrade if I can. If I cannot do that, then I would need another server, which I do not have, nor the money to buy. Due to company policy, we do not run virtual servers on our production side of the house, which is a classified network with no internet access.

In the actual Approve Promotion Request task, the Requested Promotion State is not included in the attributes on the task page, but it does show up on the email notification.  I put in a ticket but they said there is no way out of the box to add that attribute to the task.  Bizzare.  So I already put in a request to Product Ideas to get that functionality.  In the mean time, can someone with java expression knowledge help me include this in the instructions of the task?  I am not really clear on what I need to do for that.  I did see someone posted something similar, but I'm not sure how I get this work.    PromotionNotice pn=POB; String matuarityState=pn.getMaturityState().getDisplay()toString();   I add an expression robot on the workflow Approve Promotion Request task.  On the Expression page, what do I write?  Can someone help me out?

Windchill Performance Advisor Patch 10.2_M030-WPA2 is now available for download here: https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/patch/patch_details.jsp?n=1970   This patch addresses the following issues: System data may not update correctly in Windchill Performance Advisor Windchill Performance Advisor GUID is duplicated after rehosting in Windchill   For more information on installing the patch please see the following article: https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/case_solution.jsp?n=227953

Hello all,   As a Jr. Engineer at my current employer I am developing a search tool for fasteners that we have in-house and in WindChill. Due to the nature of the problem and the number of parts in WC, I would like have a "button" to my search tool that would allow me to add the part to my Workspace. I would appreciate any feedback.   Thank you

I've created a new product context and want to move existing data from one context to the new one. Is it possible to move an option pool from one context to another?