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Facing issue after changing the vaulting & Replication preference from master to replica, the thumbnails of the objects goes missing.

Our old drawings title block have ECN numbers , with windchill I am advising not to use the CN # on Drawing title block. My reasoning is all you need is Part NUmber and the subsequent details can be found in your PLM system. This will also promotes the best practice of using PLM system the right way ( right way as I think )Please share your thoughts on thisThanksAlex

Hello everyone,I'm having trouble starting Windchill. Upon launch, the Server Manager opens and launches the Method Server who opens momentarily and closes.The Method Server log is the following:2017-02-09 07:51:50,556 INFO  [main] wt.system.out  - ------------------------------------------------------2017-02-09 07:51:50,556 INFO  [main] wt.method.server.startup  - Starting MethodServer2017-02-09 07:51:50,556 INFO  [main] wt.method.server.startup  - JVM id: 28922017-02-09 07:51:50,556 INFO  [main] wt.method.server.startup  - JVM: Oracle Corporation, Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, 1.8.0_92 (25.92-b14), 64-bit2017-02-09 07:51:50,556 INFO  [main] wt.method.server.startup  - OS: Windows Server 2012 R2, amd64, 6.32017-02-09 07:51:50,556 INFO  [main] wt.method.server.startup  - Host: WIN-9U6A5RRLNG0 (172.31.26.169)2017-02-09 07:51:50,556 INFO  [main] wt.method.server.startup  - java.rmi.server.hostname: 172.31.26.16920

Hi,     When windchill starts, it takes some time to initialize ServerManager, BackgroundMethodServer and MethodServer. So, in that after initialization, Method server shows 'MethodServer ready (in 432.07 secs)' time to start the complete windchill, So I just want to know can we decrease this time. Please, could anyone help me in that.Thank YouSumit Patil

I get this error message when I access my workspace .What could be the problem?My colleague who has site level access seems to be able to  access the workspace

Hey,We are considering turning on the Windchill preference, "Automatic Revise Mode" to help us with our state based versioning scheme transition from pre-release states to released.   I was wondering if anyone has done this and what best practices you could share.As I understand it there are several things that need to be changed for this to work:Set Preference: Automatic Revise ModeVerify that you are using the latest Promotion Request workflow.Update lifecycle.Dedicated state for the automatic revisionUpdated transitions for other states if needed.Additional Revise transition to Released state from the dedicated state.Create or update ACL to prevent ad hoc revision in dedicated state.Windchill 11.0 m020

I've set up a CADworker with Creo 3 M100 and creo view 3.1 on a windows 2008 R2 VM. I setup 2 workers on this server. The CADworker works as expected for the most part, the only issue I have is that it takes 2 minutes to register the server. Regardless of whether or not the worker agent is started the bottle neck of the process is the 2 minute wait while registering the server. Is there some optimization I'm not performing? Thanks

Hi all,   We have a requirement of setting 2 different Date effectivities for the same Part Revision. When we are using the Change Notice / Change Task approach of setting effectivity, there is a OOTB validation / Check that combines the 2 date effectivities and calculates the resultant effectivity. Say for Eg,. If CN1 / Change task 1 specifies  effectivity as 31/3/2017 - Open ended CN2 / Change Task 2 specifies effectivity as 10/5/2017 - Open ended   What we wanted is to set  2 different effectivities for that Part Revision namely 31/3/2017 - Open ended 10/5/2017 - Open ended   But system gives onl y1 effectivity , as  the following effectivity ( seems it is merging and calculating) 31/3/2017   I can understand on why this is like this, because system determines that the Part Revision, as a Net result should be effective on the earliest date between 2 CNs.   My question is , how to bypass or over ride this check , so that we get 2 effectivities.

Hello,We have a need to create something like a Referenced By link between WTParts and EPMDocuments. Our use case is mainly for Dynamic Documents (Arbortext), which contain product specific documentation.We have WTParts representing top level assemblies.We have Arbortext authored product documentation as Dynamic Documents for the WTPart assemblies.The groups maintaining the WTPart and the Dynamic Documents are independent.Requirements for change for the product and the documentation are completely independent.Revisions to the WTPart often do not require revision of the Dynamic Documents, the individual revising the WTPart would not always know the correct course of action for the documentation.Revisions to the Dynamic Document never require a revision to the WTPart.We require a Version to Master link that will work for Dynamic Documents similar to how Reference by Links work between a WTPart version and a WTDocument master. This would allow the two groups to work as independently as po

Hello,how can I create an area calculation attribut and put it in my workspace columm (criteria) ? thanksMorgan

Hello,I have created ObjectReference attribute for WTPart which refers to WTDocument (other Side class: wt.doc.WTDocument and otherside attribute : number), but in create part wizard this attribute shows as "unassignable". How to to display dropdown list of Document instances?

There doesn't seem to be any automatic cleanup of the data being generated by performance advisor.  Should there be?  Out of the box Windchill log files are automatically cleaned up after 30 days.  Maybe a similar approach should be taken for the performance advisor data.  Are others manually purging this data occasionally?

Can any one tell us How I Can Alert the user on Submit button of Workflow task. Required only for ITO Process.Is this right way to build code here. In workflow-->transitions-->Submit Button--->we have to do code for alert the user before submit Workflow task.    Kindly if any other way means let us know.Type :Workflow UI CustomizationCategory: General

Does anyone know if it's possible to disable exception stack traces in the Windchill log files?  These are bloating the logs and (in my opinion) provide no value.  Frankly, I don't think Windchill legitimately preventing users from doing something they don't have permission to do (based on ACLs) should be classified as an ERROR.  I don't need to see a stack trace every time someone tries to check out something before they revise it.  This isn't an ERROR, this is a SUCCESS.  Windchill is doing it's job!  Can the red text below be suppressed?2017-03-28 02:47:28,676 ERROR [ajp-nio-127.0.0.1-8010-exec-66] com.ptc.windchill.uwgm.proesrv.action.AddToWorkspaceAction <user> - AddToWorkspaceAction.checkoutToWorkspace :: EPM checkout failedwt.vc.wip.WorkInProgressException:Operation failed because the user did not have the necessary permission on the following objects to perform the operation: Drawing  - <drawing 1>Operation failed because the user

Good morning,I currently do not have access to Windchill and I have been looking on precisionLMS and the forum but could not find what I need.I was wondering if one of you would be kind enough to send me the following screenshots (please hide any names or confidential information).The list of projects showing the status of the projects, % of completion etc..  I think this is the default viewChange Management: The default report that shows the number of Change Requests, Change notice etc..I want to illustrate my powerpoint with some screenshots that show that how default dashboards look like and how easy it is to get information from it.I hope you see what I am after. Thanks a lot

When saving an assembly, often times Creo will ask me “Do I want to save/continue/make read only/etc” parts that have really not been intentionally modified. When I indicate “Make Read Only”, I get the message “[filename] could not be saved to the workspace”. Then if I save a second time, the assembly is saved “[filename] has been saved”.Is this something we are doing wrong that makes us have to save twice? Some procedure we need to correct? A setting in the config that needs adjusting? Creo 3.0 F000 Windchill 10.2 M22Thanks in advance,Herb SpauldingMiller Industries

As i had question due to command "windchill wt.util.jmx.SMJconsole" and command "windchill wt.util.jmx.SEJconsole" both returned quiet similar output

Hi my users want to use PDM Link to be the document and life cycle manager for some point cloud surface modeling software called Leica Cyclone. It generates a native file format called .imp file which has stored within it suface models and associated XML and .jpgs. There are also other native files.I don't need to open these in CREO I just want to use Windchill to track the revisions, give names, and manage their life cycle. Has anyone done something similar to this and if so how did you go about doing it?I am using PDM LInk 10.2 CPS22.Thank you.

Rather than writing signatures to variables within a workflow and storing them as an attribute, is there a way to pull signatures from the object itself?

Hello everyone.I currently work for a company that has a basic PDM system, even the reseller told me it is actually a file manager. This is to say that CAD files are checked in and the CAD structure is used as the BOM.They have no concept of Item management.  I am trying to build a case for Item management and have an Item vs CAD argumentation.The current PDM allows to link files so as you have a WTpart and its contain.  The CAD files replaces the WTpart and additional files can be linked to the CAD files.Eg, if I have a model, I can associate office files (such as test report, material specification etc…). This looks similar to what you would do with the WTpart. They are also wanting to link their PDM with their new ERP system. They intend to transfer the BOM. They have not been receptive of the discussion about eBOM and mBOMI struggle to articulate argumentation in favour of Items with that particular company.I was wondering if anyone could share his experience.I guess this

I want to add rows in affected objects table (of Change Task) upon clicking a custom action. Custom action I've already created, AddParent.When I select an object present in the table and click "AddParent", the system should fetch all its parent objects & display it in the table. What are the approaches you can suggest? Thanks.

Hi All, I have updated obsolete information of 3000 parts(Business critical) by mistake. Now I want to rollback. Is it possible by a batch script like?Please advise. Its very crucial for my company.Thanks in advance.

Hi,I am unable to load cad document templates due to following error : The type 'WCTYPE|wt.epm.EPMDocument|................' cannot be imported into this system. Its name '......' has been used by other type 'WCTYPE|wt.epm.EPMDocument|.......' Error loading data from file.Please let me know if any one has any solution for it.ThanksSenthil

We currently have SolidWorks 2016 and I was wondering if it is compatible with Windchill Workgroup Manager? We are using Windchill 10 and Creo 3 is our primary CAD software. But we are starting get files from vendors created using our part numbers that I am being asked to put into Windchill.

We haven't yet used (new for 10.x) enumerated lists of attribute values, but are preparing to do so. Some of our attributes have very long lists of possible values.There is no method that we can see to transfer values developed in a test system to production. Has anyone found a way to do this - possible via a Windchill shell command? Note: one can easily capture the values via a query builder report and so typing is not required when adding to production, but lots of copy/paste is still needed.Tech support saysexport / import thruany meansis not supported as far as they know.