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I am very new to Windchill but familiar with other PDM software. We have a relatively "nested" standard folder structure for projects in order to capture all possible aspects of a typical construction project. Many of the subfolders are empty, which makes browsing for files and searching for old information very cumbersome.Ideally, I think the folder structure should change to something with fewer child folders, but that is a long-term goal I have that will take some time/convincing.Is there a way to 'hide' folders/subfolders that have no objects inside to make browsing in the table view easier? I see that one can create custom table views, but I don't see that file size or number of objects inside a folder is really an attribute/criteria that can be set to filter out.Any suggestions/advice is appreciated.Thanks!Colin

When I have to select New promotion request in Windchill?

Hello,In the "Visualization Configuration Administration" UI in the Utilities of Windchill, I had set the .xml file so as to have additional files (pdf for drawings, step for parts and asm) to be created in the default representation of the publisher, that can be easily and quickly downloaded without having to manually make additional representations every time.They are obviously supposed to automatically update if the part/drw is modified and checked-in (according to the "Latest" logic).The problem I have now is that, after modification and check in, while for drawings it's all ok (the thumbnail updates, and so does the associated pdf), for the parts instead the thumbnail updates but not the additional files (step and iges), which are not available any more for downloading: If want them, I have to re-publish the default representation.I enclose a video which shows this. Video Link : 7970 Why? And how could I fix this?Thanks

I'm on my Windchill upgrade journey from 10.2 to 11.0.  Currently we are on SQL Server 2008 SP1.  Our goal is to get to SQL Server 2016.I'm thinking about taking the general steps below to get there.Upgrade from 2008 to 2012 in 10.2 environmentOn database server for 11.0, install SQL 2016Upgrade from 10.2 SQL 2012 to 11.0 SQL 2016I was wondering if anyone else has taken this journey?  How did you do it?  It doesn't have to be to 2016, but that would be helpful.  Trying to get this all done before October.Thank you,Brian

I was at the recent Windchill Infrastructure TC meeting and the subject of DTI came up.  It seems a large set of companies were having issues with DTI becoming unstable as MS Office and Windows patches were applied.  Is anybody able to share experience with DTI and what sort of patching is problemattic?

Hi,Is there an API through which I enumerate the list of all available groups in my Windchill. I'm able to do this through an Oracle Query from the Database but still would like to know if this can be achieved through any available API, rather than going through the process of having a read only account for Database and resolving the Database query from my code.Thanks in advance!Amarkarthi

Hi Friends,I comes with a situation in which i have to do one thing that to make separate broker URL from .xconf file for reply and response each. I am using JMS here called ActiveMQ installed in to my desktop.Currently i am using only one URL for reply and response both. Now how  to do separate JMS broker URL for reply and response in PTC Windchill 11 ?Thanks in advanced.

can you add a URL link and have it open in another tab or window?

I have a wizard page with 2 steps. Once the user completes step1 and moves to step2, I would like to restrict the user going back to step1 again. Please help me if there is any way to implement this?Thanks in advance.

I have several assembly models with drawings that I am unable to retrieve due to missing PVZ file attachments. Below are the error messages I have been receiving. Is there anyway to recover these missing documents? If not, any ideas of how to open the drawings/models?   Can not retrieve model 12380BR.   'wtws://OPW PDMLink Windchill/MaxAir II/12380br.prt|v=C.2' cannot be retrieved.   Can not retrieve model 12380BR.Thanks,Austin VanDeVyvere

Hey all. I've got a big problem that has me completely perplexed. We just recently (last week) updated our Windchill to 11. This may or may not have something to do with this. Anyway, before the update a WT part was created and related to a Creo .prt. This part was used in several assemblies and WT part structures were built that included this part. No issues. Today, I tried to use it in a new assembly and when I went in the .asm info page, went to compare to part structure and clicked build structure I got the following error "Build Failed: Build cannot add the following children to the Part structure: "Part-12307, 2 TAB WELD NUT, A.4 (Design)" The associations between the CAD Document/Model Item and Parts were created incorrectly. Please contact your system administrator." I have absolutely no idea what to do. Like I said, this part has existed and been used in WT structure before. Now I'm completely stuck. Any help would be great. Thank you!

How to add a link to  WTDocument in 'New Part Creation' Screen?

Hello all,I need to link a new Action in Action Menu of a Product..How i can achive this.Please Check the Image of Required Outcome.Please tell me the exact way..Thanks,Vivek

Hi,I just want to ask where/how to generate Bill Of Materials in windchill PDM Essentials?Thanks!

If I want to maintain an xml file (which is used for some attributes comparison between windchill and a third party system), where is the right place to keep that file?

We have recently purchased a company.  They are running Wildfire 5 but also DraftSight.We plan to import all their data into our PDMLink system.  However, I wanted to find out if anyone has imported DraftSight files into their system.  If so what type did you import them in as.  The reason I ask what type is because there is no Windchill Integration for DraftSight files as far as I can see.

Can Windchill Support Vietnam Language?

We have a requirement to bulk load WTParts in Windchill along with a content URL. Is this possible using LoadFromFile or is customization required?Please let me know in case anyone has done this before.Thanks,Nikhil

how to change the value of a document attribute in a workflow

We want to create an overloaded master BOM for our top-level machines and then have the user make a copy of the master BOM and only include the specific WTParts needed to create the new machine structure.Overloaded BOM WTPart example for windchilllvl0 5-BAR820-MASTER-BOMlvl1 5-G13071 (group of different steel frames to select from)lvl2  5-27926lvl2  5-26113lvl2  5-21341lvl2  5-10893lvl1 5-G13076 (group of different control panels to select)lvl2  5-27808lvl2  5-27807In the example above, I want my user to copy the 5-BAR820-MASTER-BOM and give it a new name (for example, 5-BAR820-SN1000) and then either include or exclude the LVL1 and LVL2 WTParts as needed to create the new machine.   I rename the top-level to 5-BAR820-SN1000 and then  select the existing WTParts to include and I have a new WTPart structure as shown below.lvl0 5-BAR820-SN1000lvl1 5-G13071 (group of different steel frames to select from)lvl2  5-26113lvl1 5-G13076 (group o

I’m working on a page scraping routine to go into Windchill after information not programmatically available by more straightforward means (like task URLs).  This is implemented in VBA and browsing through IE11 -- I can give more details on exactly how if needed, but I don’t think it really impacts my question -- the long story short is that it’s all been more or less straightforward, with the exception of programmatically interacting with Windchill’s checkboxes, because I can’t find them! All of the buttons, textboxes, and other input objects on a typical page in Windchill seem to be accessible as expected and are visible in the page’s document.innerHTML source, but not the checkboxes -- they don’t seem to be in, or associated with, the <DIV>s in which they appear, or impacted by any other input objects I can dig out of the innerHTML and programmatically click, set checked = true, etc. All my program needs to do is uncheck the checkbox for one workflow and check the checkbo

Hi everyone,We are looking to see if anyone has information on the ability to add a Select Participants step in the Change Objects (PR, CR, CN) creation wizard that would allow an author of the object to setup members in different roles, like Change Admin II, or the CIB team; rather than waiting for a task to be assigned to them with the Set-Up Participant tab. This could be similar to Step 3 (Select Participants) in the Promotion Request creation, but we would like to have the ability to limit the team roles that are available for an author to add a user.I did some searching on PTC.com and in the Customization Guide, but did not discover anything. We are currently running PDMLink v10.2 M030-CPS21Thanks for the help in advance.-William

Good Afternoon,   I'm using WC 11.0 M020-CPS03 and FireFox 53.0.3 on a Windows 7 PC. Issue I am having is that when I Drag and Drop to a folder in WC the UI pops up and the Attribute table flashes for 1 second and disappears.  So I can't finish the Process of adding them to the folder.   It does this for Dragging and Dropping multiple files as well.   This started once we updated to WC 11.0 I know the HTML5 method works, but you still have to click menu option to get to the point where you can drop the files.   Has anyone else had this issue,  This is happening on multiple PC's a great feature lost!!   Thank You

Hello all,When configuring ModelCHECK and setting DIR_REPORT in config_init.mc the path is interpreted as Windows if you specify a static path, for example:DIR_REPORT c:\myusershomebaseetc\subfolder\mc_reportsBut let's say you want the report to live in a subfolder based on the windchill username?  You might want to do this if you don't use the windows provided %USERPROFILES% which is c:\users\<username>\ in most cases.Here's what I found works on Windows 7 professional:DIR_REPORT $homedrive/home/$USERNAME/mc_reports(Note the forward slashes, this is opposite to Windows convention of '\' backslashes for paths.)If you do want to use %USERPROFILES% you would use this:DIR_REPORT %USERPROFILE/mc_reportsThese below options do NOT work in my testing:DIR_REPORT $homedrive\home\$USERNAME/mc_reportsDIR_REPORT $homedrive\home\$USERNAME\mc_reportsDIR_REPORT c: \home\$USERNAME/mc_reportsDIR_REPORT c:\home\$USERNAME\mc_reportsAll results in Creo Parametric 2 M120 defaulting to the folder

Due to previous sins, we have a number of files without viewables and so started a job to recreate virtually all of them. The problem is that it's prone to failing.At times, it runs fine and then everything will start failing and the job logs indicate "Error, did not find available worker of type PROE". When this happens, nothing will get through. Then, after pulling my hair out for a day or so, it'll start running jobs again (from time to time I resubmit a couple to see if anything's changed).If I go to the Worker Agent Administration window, it indicates "Fails to Start" for the PROE worker. I had luck one time just clicking on the green flag to start the job, but that only worked once. These jobs all run in PublisherQueueL. "Standard" jobs from check-ins, promotion requests, etc come through fine in either the L or the M queue while these resubmitted jobs are failing.What would cause the PROE worker to work only when it wants to (and how do I convince it to)?Windchill 10.2, M030.