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Last December Daktronics brought the first of many Quality processes into Windchill from Infopath, Nonconformance.  There were many things to figure out but one of those things was the capturing of reporting location (which manufacturing line, value stream, or area is reporting this NC).  We decided to capture it in the ncCategoryCode classification tree.  This has been working great and now we are moving onto our second Quality process to migrate into Windchill from Infopath, Temporary Deviation Report (or Deviation as Windchill would call it).  Since this is a Quality owned process, we're going to have some growing pains considering the differences between Change objects and Quality objects.  The first one I have come across is how do we capture the same value stream information in Deviation that we are in Nonconformance.We don't want to reinvent the wheel here, so the first thing I wanted to try was enable the ncCategoryCode classification that's on NC in De

In this example Change Associations are used to define that a Prototype CN (Soft typed) will have a single Change Task - Prototype Change Task that is defined as the default change task for this type of Change Notice.   With Windchill 11.0 M010 and onwards you can define which Change Task types are allowed and created for a type of Change Notice.  This is allow followed with Change Task templates.  Together this helps to error proof your process and reduce clicks for the user.

I am looking to publishing a stand alone AE floating note from creo  to windchill control characteristics on a W2 part.  This will allow the notes to be published to MCAD to be used in a process plan step.  I have gotten this note to show up in Creo view as a floating note but doesn't show in the control characteristics tab on the process plan. Is there a specific windchill setting that needs to be set to allow any control characteristic to be used downstream?   All GD&T shows on the process plan steps but not the floating note.     See Figure 1 for creation of control characteristic in Creo. See figure 2 attached for view when selecting AE floating note in creo view.  Again,  this is seen in creo view, but not process plan step.

Is there a way to associate a newly created part to a specific 'variable'; where later we can use this 'variable' to filter all new parts and export the list to a table.

I have a little bone to pick with publishing in PDMLink.It turns out that every once in a while we come across a drawing that was not published correctly.  One of my users came across a previous version that had a wrong published view.  I did some investigation and this is what happened.There is a drawing and part model with revisions from 1 to 7.  This user was looking at rev 1 because they were looking at the history of the part.  Rev 1 of the drawing has iterations 1-4.  Rev 1 of the model has 1-2..drw version 1.3 was checked in with .prt 1.2.Then the .drw was checked in one more time alone and created 1.4.As I mentioned already there were subsequent revisions done to these files and several were all done prior to us migrating from Intralink to PDMLink.  Once we migrated we obviously published all our files.Here is the problem.Because the .drw version 1.4 was checked in without its model it wouldn't pull up the latest iteration of revision 1 of the mode

We have a custom publish service, and are having issues with records not being retrieved in the order they are written.There are a number of "batch" processes that use a global transaction to process all data in the batch.  When this happens, the individual records are not committed until the entire batch is processed.  But since we are running a multi-threaded (multiple MS on multiple app servers) environment, other threads write to the table and commit immediately.Then when a read request is received, the read is based on the last transaction ID sent from the app.  When the uncommitted records exist, they end up being skipped.Has anybody dealt with how to ensure publishes to downstream systems happen in the proper order, especially when dealing with batch and interactive processes at the same time?

Hi ,Can someone help me on this ! I have created an action for a wtdocument . in the url i have given the jsp which  will fetch input as json data stored as .txt and print the output as visual representation with circles and arrows . i have saved that .txt in the directory where class files are saved.I'm not able to view the output with the supplied input . However jsp prints normal text if i click the action . somethings wrong with fetching the input and processing it inside of jsp. Regards,Soundarya.

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