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We are planning on implementing a single sign-on system (Oracle Access Manager)that utilizes Form Based Authentication (FBA). Currently the cadworker appears to send username and password to the worker to enable it to authentication with PDMLink. I appears to me that the single sign-on system will break the functionallity of the cadworker.Has anyone implemented the Cadworkers under a Form Based Authentication system? How did you accomplish it?Stuart Harvey

Are you setting CAD Document Number, Name and File Name all to the same value?Let's use this discussion forum to document your techniques to simplify this for the user.I am including a proposal below.PROPOSAL 1:File Name is NOT generated (since deliverables, flexible components, etc.) usually use some part of Part number/name. For example spring.prt, spring.drw, spring.mfg, spring_expanded.prt, etc.Keep all other identifiers driven by File Name (9.1 or 10.0)Use OIRs to drive Number and Name from File name (see attached)Use server-side preferences to prevent File Name from being driven by Name or Number in New CAD Document, Save As and RenameUse Windchill 10.0 Type and Attribute Administrator to remove Number and Name from Layouts of UIs:CAD Document Information PageNew CAD Document UIUse Table Displays to remove Number and Name from Tabular UIs (9.1 or 10.0):Workspace ListingCheck Inetc.Users can continue to refine tables using Windchill 10.0 Table Controls to hide unwanted columns:Use

Am I able to use Work Group Manager Toolkit with Visual Studio 2013? Is here any training opportunity for programming with WGM Toolkit? Ideally in Europe (best in Czech Republic).

Hi everyone.   My windchill is configured to look at another ldap source where accounts are maintained.  Is it possible to bulk load users that exist in this other ldap source into specific windchill groups?  PTC says this kind of operation is not possible, only bulk loading users into the windchill ds (as new users).   Jon

Hello all,I'm interested in learning about customizing Windchill. My company is relatively new to Windchill, and I have experience in VB and C# languages, along with some Java. Any recommendations on what company provides the best training?

hi i'm SeonHo    I just started WindchillI was curious as I was looking at some of Windrill's roles.It's about the life cycle of Windchill.Proceed with a promotion request to use the lifecycleHowever, a new promotion request will not be processed after the approver has clicked reject.Is the promotion request simply a one-time call?If the request is rejected, should the authorized manager ask again?As a member, why is not my request?Also, how do changes in status immediately after requesting a promotion occur?I am curious to know how to define conversion or state definitions in detail.Do you have an example or tutorial from the beginning to the completion stage using the life cycle?Please let me knowI need a file to understand life cycle   Thank you

Hi, I want to know is there any way i can pass the username and password in the Windchill url so that the user need not enter it when accessing the secured resource so the pop up box does not appear.   i.e.  https://SITE/Windchill/rfa/logout/LogOutRedirect.jsp ?j_username="test"&j_password="test"   Or if there is a way we can do this through a TomCat Server

I did an OOTB install of Windchill 11m030 yesterday, but when I launch the web browser, I get the login screen and then a spinning cog wheel gif in the upper left corner. I am not seeing any error messages in the method server didplays. The one thing I did that was not normal was on the Oracle server, I ran 11m020 utlities to create the DB because that was the build I had planned on installing. When I got to the Windchill install, I did not have the 11m020 Service Pack image, so loaded the 11m030 images. I did notice that Upgrade Manager ran successfully, so I am guessing that the schema was upgraded. I did not se any errors in the Upgrade Manager log file. I installed with Oracle 12c.   I have done a prior install of 11m010 on Oracle 12c with no issues. I have also done an upgrade from 11m010 to m020 on those machines.   Is this somethiing in the install that may have casued this?

Hi,   Is there a way you can silently pass user credetials in order to download and print images to PDF using Business Objects or any other reporting software?

Hello,   I am currently analysing the Navigate Applications. In order to test the View Drawing App, I have set up a Windchill Installation with an example product, including various .PRT and .ASM files. I have also created some drawings and PDFs based on these drawings. My question is, how do I have to link the CAD-Documents/WTParts/PDFs in order to have them show up in the View Drawing App results screen? I tried to upload the PDF and link it to the WTPart under the "Described by"-Documents tab, which did not solve the problem. The only result showing on the Results page is the .plt viewable, which was automatically created by a Worker.   Thank you

Dear Reader,Our purchase department is spending hours downloading manuallya dxf file for each drawing beforesending it to the manufacturer.We like to automate this manual downloadfrom Windchill and would like to work with Excel (and VBA).The number of the drawing to look for could be entered in the Excel list and the vba code could download the dxf file attached to the drawing and place this in a folder.Does anyone have experience with this and likes to share his code ?Best regards,Bernard Wielfaert

I have Windchill 10.2 installed across two Linux Servers (Front End and Back End Server).  I would like to enable the local server firewalls on the FrontEnd and BackEnd servers but when I do the Windchill randomly stops responding and I receive a "Site Status Change Notification" message saying Vaults "defaultsystemvault,defaultuploadvault" contained in this site are inaccessible because site status is "METHOD SERVER NOT RESPONDING".  After 5 minutes I receive another "Site Status Change Notification" message saying that the site is reponding normally again and can continue to use the application normally.  When the local server firewalls are disabled the application works perfectly with no problems.Does anyone know why I am receiving this error or have a working set of the local Linux firewall rules that I can see as an example? Below is an example of the "Site Status Change Notification" message I receive which shows the error and the URL it is attempting to connect to

Hiii friends,   In Project link 10.2, When trying to save as project template fails due to wt.vc.versioncontrolexecution.Exception : iteration already exists.Can any one have solution for this? kindly help. I have enclosed the error snapshot.

Community members -   Do a lot of you use the check for duplicate models capability in ModelCheck? If so, does it work well for you? Anyone know of any good videos/information demonstrating this capability?  

Has anyone change the name from Issues to Problem Report (see picture)?  I would like to change this, does anyone have the steps to change? Greg

I'm testing upgrading from 10.2 on server 1 to 11.0 on server 2.  Last time I did an upgrade it was on the same machine so it made some things easier like reconnecting to our corporate LDAP.  Does anyone have the procudures on how to reconnect it when you chose th copy the additional JNDI adapters during upgrade?  I noticed that my app-Windchill-AuthProvider.xml file does not have the entry for it.  I also noticed that in the Info*Engine administration that it still points to the old server name.  And that SQL Server still has the old server name in the repository table.

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1. What happens during the build of WTPart structure of a CAD Assembly when few of its components are present in different container/folders than mentioned in the part_creation.xml configuration.   2. Is it safe to stop the utility its execution in between and resume? How to stop the utility?   3. Is it recommended to execute the Part Creation utility in the live Production environment. Do anyone have any experience of it?   Thanks in Advance.

Hello, I just finished to read " PTC Windchill Vaulting and Replication Planning " and I still have 2 questions about replication :   1. Why the content ( A on the illustration bellow) is store in RDBMS database and not in the external vault?   2. If a user upload or check in a content on a remote file server, when are the metadata sent to the master server ? ( at the upload/check in of the content ? )   Thanks a lot Please let me know if you need any further information. Best regards, Alex

I am trying to figure out if conditional watermarking is possible: (we want the watermark to = value of PART_CLASSIFICATION for all cases except when that value is UNCLASSIFIED, then we want it to be something like SECRET/RD PENDING REVIEW). The actual label doesn't matter. The main question is: Is it possible to have the watermark feature support logic in terms of which watermark it uses?   Thanks for any help.

Hi,Does anyone here know how I can configure Windchill to deliver a package to an FTP location?The delivery of the package via Email works great, but I would really like to push this onto an FTP location.The documentation which I've read thus far deals with Distribution Targets, but I don't have a "Manage Distribution" link on either my Site or Organisation Utilities page?Kevin SperringTechnical ManagerLexisNexis215 North Ridge RoadDurban4001kevin.sperring@lexisnexis.co.za+27 (0) 31 268 3045 Direct+27 (0) 82 3891361 MobileP Please consider the environment before printing

Dear All, Is there an API to execute report (Report or Report Template) in backend and get result as outputstream? For example : 1. I created an Report Template using QueryBuilder 2. How to get report result as an outputstream by passing necessary report parameters to execute above created "Report Template"   3. Is there an API available?  

So we have migrated our workflows from 9.1 to 11.0.  We have got most things to work. One issue, If there is a workflow task that goes to multiple users (all users required to complete) at the same time and there is a routing choice of radio buttons.  The task displays with nothing preselected, which is how it should.  So that user makes a selection and completes the task.  But when the next user looks at the task, the routing radio button is preselected with the previous users selection.  I would expect each user to view the task and the routing options are not selected.  What is going on?This works correctly in 9.1, with the blank radio buttons for each user. 

I have exported my Oracle and LDAP data, my cache vaults and run robocopy on my data vaults to my test machine. I have installed OOTB Windchill 11 on that machine and Oracle 12c on the DB machine. Will the Upgrade Manager work when my machine names are now PDM3 & PDM4 instead of the WC10 machines that are PDM1 and PDM2? Basically it is a rehost/upgrade in one move. If that will not work, I will need to do the rehost to PDM3 and PDM4 of my WC10/Oracle11g, export all of the data again, then blow away WC10/Oracle11g and reinstall WC11/Oracle12c and then import the data for the Upgrade Manager. Seems there should be an easier method of doing an upgrade!!!!  

Has anyone found a way to control Creo View Resolution, especially of text?  It is very grainy and hard on the eyes.  It would be a bonus if text could be recognized as text!   We are currently still using the default home grown ProE "stick font" (not TTF and not OTF) simply called "font".