Windchill Customization

Hi All, if anyone could help me out with this scenario it would be of great help. Currently I am working in a clustered environment with apache load balancer. I have customized windchill logout functionality and I am getting logoff option and session is getting ended when I perform logoff action. I have two slaves and a master where when load balancer switches from slave 1 to slave 2 windchill throws error 'you are not authorized to view this file'. I then shut down slave 2 and worked only with slave 1 everything was working fine.    I have configured on monolithic servers on both Windows as well as RHEL servers but first time I tried with cluster environment.    Can anyone let me know what might be the possible error because of which I am getting this abnormal behaviour of Windchill? And also how should I proceed with the form based authentication on Windchill and is it good to configure form based authentication on a clustered environment? 

I have have navigated to the information page of a part and selected  the 'Structure' tab ->  and opened any part then it opens in a window with 'Structure' tab selection by default . Now I need to open the window with 'Details' tab selection. 

I need some help. I created a relatively simple workflow (reused from another workflow we have) that takes a file, changes the state to Obsolete, moves it to a separate folder and starts a timer. After the timer is done, an activity is launched asking an Assignee to take some action. When that's completed, another timer starts followed by another activity (same as the first one) and then the workflow ends.  There are no loops in the workflow. There's barely any code! The only code that exists is the "move file to folder" java code.  Somehow every time I go to initiate this workflow it initiates and then continues to do so on its own until i disable the workflow template. Now that I know to look for this, I normally catch it after it's only initiated about 200 times or so. The issue is also that the activities sends an email and the first time this happen, Windchill sent me 1800 emails before I was able to shut down the workflow.  Am I missing something easy here? Where e

Hi All,   If I have some 1200 parts with me in an excel file and if I had to raise a promotion request for all those parts and get it approved. How would I be doing it ?   Do I need to develop any utility for that ? If yes Can you please let me know about it.   Thanks and Regards, Aditya    

Hi All,   I have a part structure where there is one document added twice to that part structure with two different versions. Likewise If Part A is an End Item I have Document A added to the part A and Document A has got a version of 2.1. However the same Document A has been added once again to the structure where it has a version of 1.1.   So within a part structure there is one single document with multiple versions. Now I wish to validate the part structure and display a message(Like a dialog box or a error box) to the user stating that a previous version of Document is there in the part structure and it should be updated with that of the most recent version. How can I be achieving it. Can someone please let me know about it   Thanks and Regards, Aditya

Hi all, I am trying to add approved and rejected routing options in the promotion request review task by creating routing commands in workflow template but I am not able to display those routing options in the task object. Has anyone tried creating this? How to add routing options in the task completion area?

Hello,I want to configure PDF publishing on the Creo worker.I would like to have the same rendering as when I created PDF from creo.how can we configure the PDF settings of the worker.cordially

Hi all,I have one questing can any one help me.1) What is the replica server requirements for windchill?Best RegardsSharan.

Currently there are 2000 objects being displayed in a Windchill folder, is there a preference setting to change that amount higher? 

Hi All, Here is my requirement, I have 2 Attributes on Document, i.e. Level A and Level B. level A is Boolean type attribute and Level B is String type.   we need a behavior like, when Level A is true then Level B must be mandatory attribute and if Level A is false then Level B is normal attribute or grayed out attribute.   while doing this i am exploring "Conditional Constraints" in type and attribute manager, where we can choose a Driver attribute on that basis it will render driven attribute, but my difficulty is that in this case, i am able to select Driver attribute, but not able to set behavior of driven attribute.   Please check attached Image. and let me know how i can save information          

I am testing a new install of Windchill 11.0 m030 CPS08 and set wt.fv.fvFileThreshold to 20. I have also set wt.fv.useFvFileThreshold, wt.fv.useVaultsForAllContent and wt.fv.forceContentToVault to true. When I created the vault, I set it to Automatic folder creation. This is what we want to test.   Does Windchill create a new folder and start populating it when the threshold limit is reached?   I have uploaded 30 documents to Windchill and they are all going into my initial folder. Is there a minimum threshold number that is not documented?   On my other production system, it did not have the Automatic option when setup back at Windchill 8, so I manually create new folders and be sure that 2 or 3 are mounted and ready for the threshold of 50,000 to do the rollover. It works as expected.   Windows Server 2012 r2 Oracle 12c DB Windchill 11.0 m030 CPS08

Hello,   I trying to create a QuerySpec to retrieve highest branchIditerationInfo (using MAX function) value to get the latest most object   Thanks   Ankit

Dear All, I have created e signature in Windchill. After approval there will be reviewer name in workflow records, can I add these column values (reviewer name and review date) in my drawing files without customization? These column values are in workitem type and esignature attribute. How can I map these in my EPMDocument and display in my drawing file which is in both .drw and .pdf format? Has anyone tried this?

Hi All, I have created WTOrganization by using Windchill API. it was successfully created. When i tried to add Org admin to this newly created Organization found that this Organization is not present under Org Tab. I have check WTORGANIZATION table in DB and found its entry.   How i can get this new organization under my Org Tab ?   Regards, Vivek    

Hi all,   I have seen the help menu regarding the problem with multi owner part files and the link is attached below, https://support.ptc.com/help/windchill/wc110_hc/whc_en/index.html#page/Windchill_Help_Center%2FMCPR_Multi-ownerLimitations.html%23   According to that, we are also facing the problem but I came to know that there are two different solutions that can be done even though the solutions are clear verbally.  I need  help from some of you, if possible   1. At the site/industry level, we can block the process of the updating the process, if EBOM structure is not developed 2. We can create some custom code for pop up window to select the required part & generate the EBOM.   These two procedures are quite interesting  but I need some support for developing EBOM structures without having laborious process that we are doing at present.   The problem is documented and attached to this post.  Please check it and kindly help.   &n

The"new view" action should be under Actions menue directelly and not Under the sbmenu Actions\menue.   So, this action does not create a very new object.However, the action new version create realy a new object is Under menue Action.The action  semantics  does not respect the actions a classification.   So we propose to change this action Under Actions menue.

I have a Little excel database, and I would like to read the "Status" and the "Version+Iteration" of drawing. Also the description, maintaining some kind of Read-Only link from Windchill, I suppose that somethiing like DTI "DEsktop integration"  that do an OOTB from office applications, but is possible to do ?

Hello, everyone   We are going to do some development based on Windchill's OOTB.One of their requirements is as follows. Someone in the user checks in the object.Can I create a separate document or CAD tab to announce who checked in and which files were checked in for checked-in objects? For example, User A, who is part of Product1, checked in part1.All users belonging to Product1 can notice that User A has checked in part1.Notices can be displayed on the homepage in the same form as a mission. Is this possible? If so, what should I develop?   I'll wait to your help.Thanks Kind Regards

 I need to prohibit users (designers) from changing their vault preference. Thus, I need to lock user vault preference for few users. I see that importing user preference xml file does not have lock option that works. Is there way I can achieve this.? 

Hi all,   We have a small issue when sending to SAP parts with small weight values. For example if you set the weight at 0.0000000001 then to SAP (in the windchill ESI Response files) the value 1.0E-12 is sent.  SAP cannot process this so we should have 0.0000000001 sent.    Any ideas?   Alex

Hello, everyone   Can I use parameters for naming and numbering?We are going to establish a naming and numbering scheme for businesses that are introducing PDM.We are going to propose the following.#### _ #### _ <button> .prt or #### _ #### _ <button> .asm #### means a four-digit number.The first four digits represent the part number, and the middle four digits represent the pid.The last <name> will be the name of a generic model. The 4-digit number will specify the number following the OIR in ORACLE DB.The last <name> will be the name of the file you will enter.In combination, EPM documents will be given a number and file name.The public name will have only <name>. Each type also expects parameters like parameters PTC_WC_PART_NO, PTC_WC_PRODUCT_ID, and PTC_WC_PART_NAME. Can I use WINDCHILL PDMLink systematically to satisfy the above requirement without having to use CREATE RELATIONSHIP in CREO? If possible, please let me know about the approach. Than

Hi All, Why isn't there support for rar files to check in into Windchill? How to checkin files compressed using rar format? And Why isn't '/' allowed while naming folders? 

Hi All,   I am Aditya. I would like to know how to connect Windchill to an external database using JDBC Connection. In case if we can connect Windchill to an external db without using JDBC connection, I would request you all to please let me know how that is possible.   So kindly request you to all please let me know how can we connect Windchill to an external db using a JDBC Connection and also if we there is any other way to connect to an external db so that we can retrieve the information from an external db.   Thanks in advance   Best Regards, Aditya 

Hello everyone,   I want to customaiz our WTpart & EPm-Doc.- layout so that we can see the Promotion request Approver on the side. But i can´t find the right (WT_CN_Approver) in the attributelist in the type & attribute administration.   Is this even possible?   Thanke ahead for your time.   Sincerly   Philipp  

How is the tab and attribute panel invoked? I can find action/model for it. Please check below screenshot!