Windchill Customization

Hello Everyone,I am new to Windchill customization. I am using eclipse for code writing, I have configured method server with eclipse. Problem is, I am able to write and debug normal APIs based code but when I use any service related API like VersionControlService  I am getting exception.like below.Exception in thread ``main`` wt.util.WTRemoteException: unable to invoke remote method; nested exception is :            java.rmi.ServerRuntimeException: Server exception; nested exception is:             java.lang.NullpointerException              .....             ......I am calling method using  RemoteMethodServer API and invoking class using invoke method.can any body guide me what wrong I am doing while running the code.Windchill and eclipse

I've had no luck establishing a link from an external program to an object (or even an object's page) in Windchill.  I know there are system-generated links, and user-generated links (which get classified as objects themselves).  And in MyNotebook - I can create "General links" and "Hot links".  What I would like to be able to create is something similar to the link generated in the Review Board Disposition emails, meaning the URL takes you into Windchill and accesses the page of the object in question.  Help?

Hello,How to configure Windchill LDAP with TIBCO EMS service, queue and topic?Appreciate if you anyone send sample .ldif configuration file.Thanks

Hi Gurus,I am using Windchill 10.2 M030 CPS5, I need to get the list of attributes in a email notification of that particular PBO, There is a workflow associated to it. I need to send a mail to Users with List of Attributes in Email Body and Some Attributes in Subject As well.Thanks in AdvanceBest Regards,Mahesh Kumar G

Dear PTC Support,We were trying to find a way to invoke WGM customeizer from 3rd party application (batch). But came to know that it's a limitation as per WGM toolkit documentation:Workaround:Note that at start up, WGM-client loads custom-DLL & calls initialize method (wwgmtkClientCustomizer::initialize())) where we can write code to do the job & terminate the WGM-client process.But as per our requirement, we need to have a batch application which will process several requests and it won't be a good idea to launch WGM-client process for each request!! and terminate it. So I think it is better to have someway to invoke custemizer from external application to manage properly.I hope it will be possible with future release.Let me know if you require more details. Thanks,Nathaniel

The documentation for SSO integration provided by PTC involves Windows authentication and not Siteminder. Is there someone who can guide us as to how we use Siteminder with WQS Enterprise Edition v11?

eg. listener service should be called for any event occurring on wtpart or a different listener should be called for any event occurring on wtdocument

if i use {principleBusinessObject} it will give me the document name, the windchill number 1000066578, and the document name with the revision number.  my output would beTestDocumentWindchill,0000017893, TestDocumentWindchill, A.3I want a variable to only give me the name in red or in green would be fine.

We have a lot of deleted users in our system, so we have many "tasks to be completed" assigned to users that no more exists (deleted users).I would give to a particular user the ability to  1) execute the "Complete Task" action (the function run by clicking on the button "Complate task" in the work item details mask).   2) Reassign task.   3) Delete task.Do anyone knows how to grant these action to a user?

Hello everyone!i tried to use WTContainerHelper.setContainer() but it work just for unpersisted contained objet.How to update a persisted contained object?Thanks

Hi ,In projectlink you how to assign an activity to a team role/user from Shared Team, like you can do it for worflows as role or Shared Team for Product. Kindly suggest if any customization or workaround available for the same. Windchill Project Link 10.2 M030 CPs -05.Thanks in advanceMahesh

Windchill 11.0 F000-CPS04I am wanting to programatically find the database column(s) associated with a custom standard attribute. This would be the columns created by using the AddColumns utility and then are used when creating a custom standard attribute. The Type and Attribute Manager shows it as shown in the screenshot. How does it find it?So starting with a given subtype and a given standard parameter internal name how would I find this same information that the Type and Attribute Manager is showing?

In one of the Workflow process activity we are asking the user the manually convert the EPMDocuments into IGES file format using Creo.Are there any Windchill APIs to convert EPMDocument contents into IGES file format, so that we can get rid of the manual intervention.Please suggest how can I handle the Family table instace use case, as they don't have physical files associated to them.

Hello everyone,I'm windchill beginner, and i want to create WebApp out of Windchill, that will call for Windchill services (ex : ReportTemplateHelper.generateReport() )So, for me, to do that, i need to create RestFull web service into windchill, that will call for Windchill services. And out of windchill call my Rest services.It is possible to do that? How can i create RestFull web service into windchill? it is possible to call this services out of Windchill?Thanks!

Need this as i have lot of boolean attributes so need to have checkbox instead of radio and dropdown list

I'm creating a Collection object using the code below.  The objects in the Collection are FlexObject type.  I would assume that the setObjectsState method would convert the FlexObject types to LifeCycleManaged, but it doesn't.  Do I really have to walk through the Collection and type cast each object and put it into a new Collection to use this method?  com.lcs.wc.placeholder.Placeholder ph = (com.lcs.wc.placeholder.Placeholder)primaryBusinessObject;java.util.Collection col = com.lcs.wc.placeholder.PlaceholderQuery.findProductsForPlaceholder(ph);com.lcs.wc.lifecycle.SetStateUtil.setObjectsState(col, wt.lifecycle.State.toState("ESTIMATED"), true);

Hello everyone,i'm windchill beginner, and i want to use this method in ReportTemplateQueryHelper to find template ReportTemplatefind(String a_nameValue, WTContainerRef a_containerReference, boolean a_hierarchicalContainerLookup)but i don't know wath to put in a_containerReference, how to get the containerReference?Thanks for Help !

Currently the column width resets each time to its default width. It would be a great advantage that the column widths could be dragged to a wished width and that it stays that way afterwards.Or a default width could be adjustable per attribute column (accessable for the admins only?).

I have an odd one for the gurus here: has anyone ever tried to track equipment maintenance and calibration in Windchill?  If so, how hard was it to set up initially?  Any suggestions/recommendations?I am looking at trying to replicate some of the basic functionality of Benchmate CMMS in Windchill so we can track the equipment, its maintenance, and any calibration/certification paperwork all in one system.  Really, all we want to do besides store/link the documents is to generate a PM document we can track with a due date of when the next required PM is.  This way, running a report listing PM objects that are incomplete would show us what is due and when.-Lawrence

Our Manufacturing Team Uses Creo model files to generate the CNC code. As they don't have creo installed on their system, so we have developed customized utility to download the primary content (3D Model) files of CAD objects. PTC was supporting this functionality prior to Windchill 10.0 but now removed this due to data security reasons.We are unable to download the Content of Family table instances using this utility, as primary content file only exist for Generic object. Looking for some type of solution on this ,so will able to download 3D model of instance files from PDMLink. Current workaround is open that File on Designer system and save instance as standalone CAD file, which is long way to do it.Any help or thoughts will be helpful.Thanks in Advance.

Hai All,  Is there any Shortcut in Windchill to perform several actions. For eg : If i want to rename a 100 Pro-e Files is there any way to perform it easily, now i am doing it part by part so its taking me too much time.Please help me to solve this problem.With Best Regard'sAghil.M

Hi All,1) I need to configure a additional database which has usernames and when I try to login to winchill , after entering credentials, My request has to go the additional Database( like oracle) which has usernames ( In some users table) and some business logic need to validate the entered username against the usernames present in the newly created db (users table).  if the user exists, it need to redirect to windchill, otherwise It need to display a not authorized message. The whole process should be completed before touching the windchill application or Windchill DS.2) I need to know how to break the flow to add the additional authentication.Thanks.

Hi, I am new to PDMLink. can anyone let me know where the expression robot will write the output.Thanks..

Hi,I've written some code that works well in creating a document and uploading an attachment. I can run it from the command line but whenever it reaches the point in the code where it references a PersistenceHelper I get prompted for authorization. This makes the whole thing pretty useless because my next step is to call it from a .NET application after turning it intoa web service.Does anybody know how to prevent this authorization request from popping up?I have tried      myServer = RemoteMethodServer.getDefault();     myServer.setUserName("login");     myServer.setPassword("password");but this makes no difference.For instance this lineQueryResult qr = PersistenceHelper.manager.find((StatementSpec)qs);brings up a box asking for user and password. I can't have this when calling remotely. It defeats the purpose of having an automatic customized project.ThanksBen

My customer wants to implement a Workflow without CA3. They want to complete with CA2itself. Is it possible???