Windchill Customization

Hi everyone, this particular part while customizing is confusing me a lot. Please help!   Q. is it possible to restrict users from accessing CAD/NonCAD documents in different life cycle states in windchill pdmlink?   Example Scenario: I have users userA, userB, userC, userD, userE. I have groups groupA(uploader), groupB(viewer), groupC(approver) I have defined custom profiles and created teams also.   Lifecycle states: Inwork -> Approved -> Obsolete   What I want is userB should be restricted to view files only in Approved state and not other files(CAD/NonCAD) in Inwork or Obsolete state. I have created a lifecycle state and designated roles and access control to only read to userB and added this lifecycle in OIR but is of no good?    Am I doing it right? or should I run any command after changing OIR to implement those changes? Kindly help.

We are using the out of the box Windchill-Oracle Apps ESI project file. We use the ECN object in Windchill to release our parts/documents.  The Tibco project keeps failing because it's trying to send the ECN object from Windchill to create the ECO object in Oracle. We don't use ECOs in Oracle, so we don't want  Windchil and ESI to send the ECN data to Oracle or create an ECO in Oracle. Has anyone else done this or have any idea how we can modify the Tibco Designer project to not send the ECN to Oracle?   Thanks in advance

Hello all, We keeping multiple Representations on our EPM Documents. E.g. for all in Work Objects "Latest" Rep. as default  & for Released Reps "Latest released" and keeping the previous "Latest" as 2nd optional Rep.. On details page you are limited to get a choice of those Reps available. Only the default is opened. Do somebody know if there is a way to get that managed in Windchill? I saw from a other application not coming from PTC, that this could be established. In this case when the EPM Doc Rep. is called all availabe ones are listed for having a choice. THX Regards Robert

Hi All, I am trying to code on Pickers where upon clicking on Find Picker icon for a field the user should be able to see Find Participant wizard opening up where the user will have a drop down to search either for users or groups. Upon searching for users/groups the user can see multiple results in the search results table and the user can select multiple users/groups and view the same in the field corresponding to the Find picker. So in case if any one is aware of the same I do request you all for a sample code or inputs regarding the same so that it could be helpful. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Aditya

Please see attached screenshot.   Is there a way of customising a tab on a promtion request that means the approver/owner can easily look down the list of drawings/models and see which ones have been marked up - without having to rely on subscriptions filling your mail inbox, or going in to each file and checking for saved annotations?   Many thanks, Dan  

In the actual Approve Promotion Request task, the Requested Promotion State is not included in the attributes on the task page, but it does show up on the email notification.  I put in a ticket but they said there is no way out of the box to add that attribute to the task.  Bizzare.  So I already put in a request to Product Ideas to get that functionality.  In the mean time, can someone with java expression knowledge help me include this in the instructions of the task?  I am not really clear on what I need to do for that.  I did see someone posted something similar, but I'm not sure how I get this work.    PromotionNotice pn=POB; String matuarityState=pn.getMaturityState().getDisplay()toString();   I add an expression robot on the workflow Approve Promotion Request task.  On the Expression page, what do I write?  Can someone help me out?

Hello all,   As a Jr. Engineer at my current employer I am developing a search tool for fasteners that we have in-house and in WindChill. Due to the nature of the problem and the number of parts in WC, I would like have a "button" to my search tool that would allow me to add the part to my Workspace. I would appreciate any feedback.   Thank you

Hi all !   I'm currently develop an extract feature for my client. I have 3 use cases to make : - An export from a search - An export from a BOM - An export from a Where Used BOM   I know how to get the data from this 3 use cases, but when I got my Query result with all of my object, how can I export them on CSV file ? I can hard code a CSV helper to hand made the export, but I hope there was an API to do it !   Do you have some clue ? Thanks, BR, Berthelin Benoit

I am using some code in the confirmed transition for the Analyze Problem Report workflow task to auto-create the change request. It works and even links the new change request to the problem report. But it does not propagate the info from the problem report. Does anyone know how to do it?   I tried setting the preference Change Information Propagation to Selected but it appears to only work in the UI. I want to do the same thing with the code that checking the box does in the UI.

Here is the situation: A user, Bob, creates a Change Request (and thus is the Change Request Author). The CR is approved and a CN is created. The CN Implementation Plan has a Change Activity that needs to be assigned to the Change Request Author, Bob in this case. How can I get the Change Request Author to automatically be the assignee for this Change Activity?   I know that I need a new CA soft type. (Currently I use soft types of Change Activities combined with Product Context Team Roles to automatically assign users or groups to Change Activities based on the Context of the change. But in this case, the Change Request Author is not based on the Context Team and could be anyone in the system with permission to create a CR in any context.) I thought I had everything set up correctly to assign to the Change Request Author, but every time I test it I get an "unresolved role" error from Windchill.   I feel like I am missing something minor in how roles are establ

Hello, After creating WT part in a specific location,can we upload supporting files in same location automatically.(As per my knowledge we need to assign required location manually) Is there any chance to customise windchill or any settings such that supporting files with WT part number will automatically take the location of it's generic part. Can anyone please help me this.   Thanks, Khasim

In the QMS module the Nonconformance has a couple of trees it can work with.  I'm looking to use the Quality Classification Tree in the WTVariance object.  I was hoping it'd be as simple as setting the constraint, but that doesn't seem to be the case.  In Nonconformance the ncCategoryCode has the following constraint... And selecting a classification from the picker populate not only the ncCategoryCode but also the ncCategoryPath. This seems to be the solution that the makers of QMS came up with for Cascading Dropdowns...       How could a guy extend this functionality to other form objects such as WTVariance?

I would like to be able to do the following:  On a document have a date IBA and an Int IBA.  within the workflow, use an expression to add the integer (number of days) to the datestamp to get a new datestamp that I can then write back to another IBA in the doc.  My code checks out syntactically but when I run the WF I get a java.nullpointer.expression.   the code is:    wt.doc.WTDocument theDocument =((wt.doc.WTDocument) primaryBusinessObject); com.ptc.core.lwc.server.PersistableAdapter obj =new com.ptc.core.lwc.server.PersistableAdapter(theDocument,null,null,null); obj.load("AdditionalDays","resubmitDate","DateDue"); wfAdditionalDays= obj.get("AdditionalDays").toString();wfresubmitDate= obj.get("ResubmitDate").toString();wfDateDue= obj.get("DateDue").toString(); // convert the Due Date off the Document unto a java.sql.TimeStampjava.sql.Timestamp wfDueDate2 = java.sql.Timestamp.valueOf(wfDateDue); //Convert Additional days to intodays=java.lang.Integer.par

Hi,   I'm trying to enable Auto naming for one of the WTDocument subtype with the logic that the name should be "String_<WTDocument_Number>".   Has anyone tried this? I coudn't figure out how to achieve this.

I use below code to modify WTDocument attirbute by batch, a wired problem, I have many customized attributes like: "BoardNumber,SchematicNumber,DrawingNumber,FilmRev,description,CreatedDate,ECONumber,LeadStatus,CADTool,CADToolVersion,LastUser" I can update "BoardNumber" independently, but I can't update it with other attributes together, get the error " ERROR : wt.pom.connection Administrator - POMHandler.freeConnection: connection active. java.lang.Throwable     at wt.pom.POMHandler.freeConnection(POMHandler.java:287)     at wt.method.MethodContext.freeConnection(MethodContext.java:1974)     at wt.method.MethodContext.unregister(MethodContext.java:889) ... ", other attributes any be updated together. In "Type and Attribute Management", "BoardNumber" is required , but  like "LeadStatus" is also required, who could help me?  Thanks in advance. for(String key:map.keySet()){ System.out.println(key+" : "+map.get(

I have a workflow task which is assigned to a WTGroup. When the task is alive, users get added and removed to the group. The workflow tasks which are alive does not reflect any changes made to the group, I tried modifying the wf team and it works only for new tasks not the already existing ones, reassignment through API works but this is not a reassignment so I do not want to use that option. Any thoughts on an API which I can do to refresh the existing tasks? Thanks in Advance.   

I have a Document sub-type called "Reference_Document" sub typed from WTDocument and i'm trying to hide the attachments step in creation wizard every time a user attempts to create a Reference Document. I tried modifying the Attachment-actions.xml and included hidden=true in the action name which hides the attachment tab for all document types.   Is there a way i can do this so that attachments step only for the Reference_Document  will be hidden?    

Hello,   In defining a new workflow for a specific type of Variance, I need to set a conditional connector based on the Recurring attribute (being True (1) or False (0)).   The two questions I have are:   1) What would be suggested as the variable definition to bring in the Recurring attribute?   2) What would the Routing Expression for this be?  I would like the result for the routing events to be “CN” or “NO_CN”.   I am new to building workflows and appreciate examples that others would be willing to share.   Kelly

Need help in converting below SQL query into queryspec   select * from wind.WTChangeOrder2 ch left outer join wind.WTChangeOrder2Master chmon ch.idA3masterReference = chm.idA2A2left outer join wind.ObjectHistory obj on obj.idA3A5 = ch.idA2A2left outer join wind.LifeCycleHistory lch on lch.idA2A2=obj.idA3B5where chm.WTCHGORDERNUMBER = '00039'and lch.action='Set_State';

I have installed creo view 4.1 on my pc, now I want to shared that installation on other pc's as a worldwide executable, I want something similar like a silent installation of creo 3 parametric. I want something to detect if creo view 4.1 is installed or not, then if not, an executable to install it. I know creo 3 parametric uses an xml to install. Any advice or examples will be great.   Creo View 4.1 is necessary to open up thumbnails in Windchill 11.

I'm trying to do a "Synchronize On: Object Event" . Windchill Object: wf variable is Problem report  that has multiple Change requests associate with it.   Can anybody tell me how to customize this object event , so that the synch robot completes only when all the associated Change requests are resolved  

Hello to all, I'm installing windchill 11 on a machine but the db is on another server. During the PSI error: The directory that you selected for ORACLE_HOME does not exist or is invalid. My directory is: E: \ app \ oracle \ product \ 12.1.0 \ client_1 I have configured client oracles pointing to the oracle on the DB machine and relaunched the PSI installation but I still have the same error. I do not understand where I'm wrong and how to fix it. Can someone help me? Thanks Davide

In wizard page we've 3 tablebuilder, need to reload only one table builder not whole wizard page on cilck on apply button.

We can use API to create new WTDocument, but we have a subtype under WTDocument, how can I create a subtype by API? Who could help me? Thanks in advanced.

Hi, I would like to develop few utilities using WWGM Toolkit. Currently i have "WWGM Toolkit, Version: WC11" along with Visual Studio 2015. I am new and trying to run the "wwgmtk_hello_world" program.   I am getting linker error LNK1561 when i compile it. I have also not used to C++. How do i get started. I am unable to run the test programs.  Also would like to know if it is possible to use VB or C# to develop WWGM Toolkit, if yes how to get started. Any sugesstions would be really helpful...    Thanks.