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avillanueva
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avillanueva23-Emerald I
23-Emerald I
April 30, 2026
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Need drop down action to alter version

  • April 30, 2026
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I am aware of this utility:https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS115390?source=search and database mods are sometimes easy to do but I think its time to sick an intern on this project. For those cases where I import some data that needs to start life at a higher revision other than initial, I need a clean way to alter the current identifier to something else. 

I can envision the UI being a simple drop down list or validated textbox for user entry but would need to accept a new version letter and alter the object. Supporting multiselect would be nice too. It also should handle erorr checking caveats to maintain sanity. 

Posting here if anyone else has thoughts and can supply some useful requirements I can fold in. Willing to share results with field when complete. 

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BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
April 30, 2026

We had the revision field on new objects set to allow the user to enter their own revision level if it was coming in at something other than the initial set by the revision table.

avillanueva
23-Emerald I
avillanueva23-Emerald IAuthor
23-Emerald I
May 1, 2026

Thanks Ben. Yes, I am aware of this preference switches and this article for new object creation.

https://support.ptc.com/help/windchill/r13.0.2.0/en/#page/Windchill_Help_Center/siteadmin_chp/SiteAdminChp_BestPracticeEnableSetRevisionWhileCreateNewObj.html

That does solve the requirements for new objects. It does require profiles which not 100% fan of and it seems like it would restrict visibility to revision for users that were not in the special profile.  Still leaves the case, after object creation, when we want to make alterations. In my case, we have some special rules to bump past first seed letter so we might be special.

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