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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.

I have done this before, but I can't remember what I did.One of our draftsman has a drawing checked out. He wants to get it Released, but they can't because he hasn't checked it back in. Trouble is he can't find which Workspace it's in. I watched him search for it, and he only has about 5 workspaces available to him. None of them have the drawing in it. When I search for it, I can see that it's definitely checked out to him.How can I find what Workspace it's in? I have Orgadmin privileges. Like I say, I have done this before, but only once, about a year ago. We have 10.2.

Hi,I am trying to exclude a CAD part from a BOM in solidworks as shown in the below image and when Checking-In the BOM into windchill, I don't want the excluded CAD part to be displayed under 'Structure' tab in Windchill.Is it possible to do so? If yes, please guide me the way to achieve it.Thanks & Regards,Irfan

Hi,I want to manage color variant of product(car).tell me the possible workaround top down and bottom up approaches.

Enable the "New multiple parts" function from workspace menu. I think is a good tool and now it is only in Windchill commonspace.Thanks

I need to add an actions on the "search_table_actions_toolbar". User can select multiple objects from the search results page and click "MyAction" and this should open a wizard page with a table showing all the selected objects with some details. I want to know how to get all the selected objects in wizard table while building the data for that table using buildComponentData(). I searched all the methods available on ComponentConfig , ComponentParams as these are the only parameters passed on this method.Could someone help me on this.

All the supported methods available does not meet the requirements.

When i share an object to a project, it is hidden. To be able to see the object in the folder, I have to select the folder context "All - including hidden objects". What causes the object to be hidden? Where's the setting? Thanks

Hello Everyone.I am trying to get the approver's name from a promotion request and assign it to an IBA inside a wt.doc.WTDocument. Does anyone know a straight forward way to accomplish that? I am not really versed in JAVA so I'd appreciate if you also could provide a code snippet.I've tried the following inside the "complete" transition from an OOTB promotion request:1- created a variable called "documenApprover" that matches the IBA internal name.wt.doc.WTDocument qop = (wt.doc.WTDocument)primaryBusinessObject;com.ptc.core.lwc.server.PersistableAdapter obj = new com.ptc.core.lwc.server.PersistableAdapter(qop,null,null,null);obj.load("documentApprover");Object approverValue = obj.get("documentApprover");documentApprover = approverValue.toString();I'm getting a message saying that wt.maturity... cannot be cast to wt.doc.....Anyone can help me here please?Thank you very much!!

HI All,Can you please someone tell how to make the user entries available in WTUser table?I hope, the user entries will be created whenever the user tries to login and when we search the user in the participant administrator. Is there any code to sync?Thanks for your help in advance.Regards,John

We started using Windchill, Since 2012 from there Data's in Windchill are scattered and no proper life cycle states where followed.So we decided to cleanup the unused objects from Windchill. We purged to cleanup the data created from 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016 with below criteria's in manage queries.CriteriaObject Type : EPM DocumentVersion at Maturity : Design ReleasedVersion at Maturity : Preliminary ReleasedIteration (All but last) : 2Created : 01-01-2012 to 31-12-2012Modified : 01-01-2012 to 31-12-2012Created Purge Job for the above query criteria and previewed the same before submitting the purge job.For Example: The preview shows with result 2300 objects eligible for purge which includes family table (Instance and Generic) as well. But we were able to purge 20% from the eligible object rest all are family table objects.Indent:> Data growth per year 2TB> Reduce the data growth by purging the unused data's > Reduce the drive sizeIs there any way to purge the family

Customers create lots of document during CAPA process. They like to add those documents along with the task they receive during CAPA workflow.Also folder view for those documents added for a specific CAPA.

I have recently run into a situation where an later version on an CAD document (Pro/e assembly) was inadvertently overwritten by an older version of that same document. After much investigation I was able to determine that the default workspace update functionality doesn't actually replace the local file contents during an update, it only updates the metadata to make it look like you have the latest version. For those who would like a detailed explanation of the tests I performed, and the behavior experienced, I have listed it all in detail below. For those want to get right to the question, here it is. Is there a way to configure either Windchill or Pro/e so that a "File", "Update" command from Pro/e functions the same way the workspace "File", "Update" command does from the workspace when the site preference "Update Overwrite Local Content" is set to "Yes"?Tom UminnEngineering Systems Analysttrans-matic Mfg.616-820-2499-<">mailto:->Test Results - All from the local workspace

Is there a workaround that gives permission to a user to change the filename of a CAD Document, without also allowing change of number?The permission group MODIFY IDENTITY seems to tie these two things together.

Hello all,   I have a small problem with a promotion workflow.   The process is running, but in a task, due to typo mistake a variable has been mistyped. Is it any way to skip this task, and proceed to the next one?     Thank you in advanced. Regards John

Hi all,For Soft type attribute i have added a User Picker. it Works fine, it opens the Picker pop up, enlist all user . when i select any one from the list and it will correctly displayed on creation Wizard.but when i finished the WTPart and go to detail page of it, where ideally i am expecting username to display. but i found DN is displaying there.Please see below screen print and code used for user picker, and here is the code Please let me know where i should change ?Regards,Vivek

Anyone know why this is.I have set Org and Site preference for Affected End Items Display to No.If a users creates a CR in a Folder or from an item in a folder then the CR does not contain section 2 "Affected End Items Display". If a users creates a CR from a Search result (Actions) then the CR does have Affected End Items Display.As a side note, the folder actions does not include items they can not compete (we do not allow users to create a CN or Problem Reports) but on the Search actions the action is listed to create a Change Notice or a Problem Report.Thanks.

Is there a way to insert the promotion request approver name and role in a word document using DTI? If yes, could you please provide the details?

Please see attached.Can't get these preferences or .ini file settings to work so far.thanks in advancePREFERENCESUpload CAD/Dynamic Document and Attachment Filter= (create one for SolidWorks)Search Path for Automatically Attach Files on Upload=C;\autoattachEQUIVALENT WGM INI FILE SETTINGS (EXAMPLE GIVEN FOR AUTOCAD)wgm.autoattach=*.dwg,*.pdf,GENERALupload.autoattach.searchpath=C:\autoattach