To all,

We are doing testing on Creo3 and Windchill 10.2. When we make a change and try to check it in, not upload, in some cases we have a failure. In the event manager window, if we go to the conflict management information we get the following:

Under the Description it says "Missing descriptor"

Initially we were using IE8 as our embedded browser, so we change to chrome. The problem went away for me, but someone today was testing, made a change and tried to check the part in, again not upload, and he got this conflict now. I had set him up for the embedded browser to be chrome before we even did anything. But for some reason, he was not able to successfully check in a change.

Any help as to what this means would be helpful.

Dennis

Hi everybody !

I am very new to this forum & very beginner to windchill 10.1.

Is this possible to add constraint to an attribute through program.

(ex. SingleValuedConstraint, LegalValueList)

We have been working with Windchill PDMLink (10.1) since 2012. Until now we have been using Windchill only for CAD, but now we want to incorporate everything into Windchill. We are therefore reviewing our routines and trying to adapt the "Windchill mindset". In this case, what is the Windchill philosophy regarding contexts?

• We have many different customers and projects in our organization. Should we create a new product context for each new project? (Our products is often “one of a kind”)
• Until now we have been using only one product context, with a folder structure representing our customers. Is there any downside to keep working this way?

Thanks,

Ørjan

The requirement is when the product is created with design office template then only it should be able to create document..other than document should not be created.

how to start up with this???

I just created a new global attribute (att1) and added it to an existing classification (classifX). Now I cant find that attribute within the classification attributes. My code looks like this:

ClassificationNode cNode = queryForClassificationNodeByName("classifX");
cNode = (ClassificationNode)IBAValueHelper.service.refreshAttributeContainer(cNode, "CSM", null, null);
DefaultAttributeContainer attributeContainer = (DefaultAttributeContainer) ibaHolder.getAttributeContainer();
AttributeDefDefaultView views[] = attributeContainer.getAttributeDefinitions();for (int lv = 0; lv < views.length; lv++) {   AbstractValueView avv[] = attributeContainer.getAttributeValues(views[lv]);  for(int i = 0; i < avv.length; i++){    System.out.println(avv[i].getDefinition().getName());  }}

I get all the other attributes but not the attribute I just created. Could any one please tell me what's missing?

Hi! I am creating custom search utility. On the main search page (jsp) when user click on the search button (search buttob is an action that rendered like button) he call following method:

public static void search(NmCommandBean paramNmCommandBean) throws WTException, WTPropertyVetoException

          {

                    HttpServletRequest request = paramNmCommandBean.getRequest();

                    URLFactory urlFactory = (paramNmCommandBean.getUrlFactoryBean()).getFactory();

                    NmURLFactoryBean localNmURLFactoryBean = new NmURLFactoryBean();

                    urlFactory.setRequestURL(request.getScheme(), request.getHeader("HOST"), request.getRequestURI());

                    String url = urlFactory.getHREF("netmarkets/jsp/ext/search/executeAdvSearch.jsp");

                    HttpServletResponse response = paramNmCommandBean.getResponse();

                    RequestDispatcher rd = request.getRequestDispatcher(url);

                    response.setHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");

                    response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-store");

                    response.setDateHeader("Expires", -1L);

                    try {

                              rd.forward(request, response);

          }

                    catch (IOException e) {e.printStackTrace();}

                    catch (ServletException e) {e.printStackTrace();}

          }

All is good, but if executeAdvSearch.jsp contains mvc component insertion like follow:

<jca:action var="action" actionName="mvcSearch" actionType="advancedSearch" />

          <c:set var="mvcUrl" value="/${action.url}" scope="request" />

<jsp:include page="${mvcUrl}" />

Method server throw an exception like:

java.lang.NullPointerException

        at com.ptc.windchill.enterprise.search.mvc.SearchComponentBuilderResolver.getConfigBuilderId(SearchComponentBuilderResolver.java:46)

        at com.ptc.windchill.enterprise.search.mvc.SearchComponentBuilderResolver.resolveConfigBuilder(SearchComponentBuilderResolver.java:70)

        at com.ptc.mvc.components.ComponentController.getComponentDefinition(ComponentController.java:187)

        at com.ptc.mvc.components.ComponentController.handleRequest(ComponentController.java:97)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

        at org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support.HandlerMethodInvoker.invokeHandlerMethod(HandlerMethodInvoker.java:176)

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.jav

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.handle(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:424)

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:790)

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:719)

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:669)

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:585)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:641)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:749)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:605)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:544)

        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspRuntimeLibrary.include(JspRuntimeLibrary.java:954)

        at org.apache.jsp.netmarkets.jsp.ext.nikiet.search.executeAdvSearch_jsp._jspService(executeAdvSearch_jsp.java:122)

        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:432)

        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:390)

        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:749)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:487)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:412)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:339)

        at ext.nikiet.search.NmSearchCommands.search(NmSearchCommands.java:56)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

        at com.ptc.netmarkets.util.beans.NmCommandBean.execute(NmCommandBean.java:2323)

        at com.ptc.core.components.servlets.DefaultJCAPageModelFactory.process(DefaultJCAPageModelFactory.java:383)

        at com.ptc.core.components.servlets.DefaultJCAPageModelFactory.getPageModel(DefaultJCAPageModelFactory.java:182)

        at com.ptc.jca.mvc.components.JcaPageModelHandlerInterceptor.preHandle(JcaPageModelHandlerInterceptor.java:121)

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:781)

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:719)

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:669)

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:585)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:641)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

        at wt.httpgw.filter.WTContextBeanFilter.doWithWtContextBeanHandler(WTContextBeanFilter.java:98)

        at wt.httpgw.filter.WTContextBeanFilter.doFilter(WTContextBeanFilter.java:58)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

        at wt.servlet.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:248)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

        at wt.servlet.RequestInterrupter.doFilter(RequestInterrupter.java:327)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

        at wt.servlet.ServletRequestMonitor.doFilter(ServletRequestMonitor.java:1582)

        at wt.servlet.ServletRequestMonitorFilter.doFilter(ServletRequestMonitorFilter.java:56)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)

        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:99)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)

        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)

        at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.process(AjpProcessor.java:200)

        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:585)

        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:310)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)

        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread.run(TaskThread.java:77)

ERROR : org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/Windchill].[jsp]  - Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception

java.io.IOException: Stream closed

        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.ensureOpen(JspWriterImpl.java:210)

        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.flushBuffer(JspWriterImpl.java:115)

        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.release(PageContextImpl.java:190)

        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl.internalReleasePageContext(JspFactoryImpl.java:126)

        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl.releasePageContext(JspFactoryImpl.java:80)

        at org.apache.jsp.netmarkets.jsp.ext.nikiet.search.executeAdvSearch_jsp._jspService(executeAdvSearch_jsp.java:133)

        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:432)

        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:390)

        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:749)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:487)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:412)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:339)

        at ext.nikiet.search.NmSearchCommands.search(NmSearchCommands.java:56)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

        at com.ptc.netmarkets.util.beans.NmCommandBean.execute(NmCommandBean.java:2323)

        at com.ptc.core.components.servlets.DefaultJCAPageModelFactory.process(DefaultJCAPageModelFactory.java:383)

        at com.ptc.core.components.servlets.DefaultJCAPageModelFactory.getPageModel(DefaultJCAPageModelFactory.java:182)

        at com.ptc.jca.mvc.components.JcaPageModelHandlerInterceptor.preHandle(JcaPageModelHandlerInterceptor.java:121)

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:781)

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:719)

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:669)

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:585)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:641)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

        at wt.httpgw.filter.WTContextBeanFilter.doWithWtContextBeanHandler(WTContextBeanFilter.java:98)

        at wt.httpgw.filter.WTContextBeanFilter.doFilter(WTContextBeanFilter.java:58)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

        at wt.servlet.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:248)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

        at wt.servlet.RequestInterrupter.doFilter(RequestInterrupter.java:327)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

        at wt.servlet.ServletRequestMonitor.doFilter(ServletRequestMonitor.java:1582)

        at wt.servlet.ServletRequestMonitorFilter.doFilter(ServletRequestMonitorFilter.java:56)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)

        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:99)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)

        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)

        at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.process(AjpProcessor.java:200)

        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:585)

        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:310)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)

        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread.run(TaskThread.java:77)

I would like to invite customers who are interested in seeing monthly sprint demo of enhancements being made to Query Builder and Report Builder. The session would be valuable if you are already familiar with the product and using it in the production.

If you are interested, kindly send me following information:

Name:-

Company Name:-

Email address:-

Currently Using Product in production Environment (Yes/No):-

One Enhancement that you would like to see:-

Thanks,

Divi Lohiya (dlohiya@ptc.com)

Senior Product Manager

Hello all,

I trying to get remote debugging to work with eclipse using Windchill 9.1 M10

I followed this tutorial: http://maheshmhetre.blogspot.com/2013/02/windchill-method-server-debugging.html

but I always get the error below in the server manager after a restart.

Fri 12/19/14 10:08:48: MethodServerMonitor: ERROR : wt.manager.ServerManagerImpl - Start of MethodServer timed out.

Fri 12/19/14 10:08:48: RMI TCP Connection(1)-10.11.4.57: INFO  : wt.manager.ServerLauncher - Starting MethodServer

Fri 12/19/14 10:08:49: MethodServerMonitor: ERROR : wt.server.manager.startup - Unable to launch 1 MethodServer instance

Fri 12/19/14 10:08:49: MethodServerMonitor: wt.util.WTRemoteException: Unable to get server; nested exception is:

Fri 12/19/14 10:08:49: MethodServerMonitor:           (wt.manager.managerResource/3) wt.util.WTException: Start of MethodServer timed out.

Fri 12/19/14 10:08:49: MethodServerMonitor:           at wt.manager.ServerManagerImpl.getServer(ServerManagerImpl.java:271)

Fri 12/19/14 10:08:49: MethodServerMonitor:           at wt.manager.RemoteServerManager.getServer(RemoteServerManager.java:299)

Fri 12/19/14 10:08:49: MethodServerMonitor:           at wt.manager.StandardServerMonitor$ServerMonitor.startServers(StandardServerMonitor.java:333)

Fri 12/19/14 10:08:49: MethodServerMonitor:           at wt.manager.StandardServerMonitor$ServerMonitor.run(StandardServerMonitor.java:213)

Fri 12/19/14 10:11:49: RMI TCP Connection(1)-10.11.4.57: ERROR : wt.manager.ServerManagerImpl - Start of MethodServer timed out.

Fri 12/19/14 10:11:49: RMI TCP Connection(1)-10.11.4.57: INFO  : wt.manager.ServerLauncher - Starting MethodServer

Fri 12/19/14 10:13:34: MethodServerMonitor: INFO  : wt.server.manager.startup - Starting 1 additional MethodServer instance

Fri 12/19/14 10:14:49: RMI TCP Connection(1)-10.11.4.57: ERROR : wt.manager.ServerManagerImpl - Start of MethodServer timed out.

Fri 12/19/14 10:14:49: RMI TCP Connection(1)-10.11.4.57: INFO  : wt.manager.ServerLauncher - Starting MethodServer

Fri 12/19/14 10:15:41: wt.jmx.core.SharedScheduledExecutor.worker: INFO  : wt.summary.general - JVMName=7596@PLMWEBTEST, HeapMemoryUsage=6513848, NonHeapMemoryUsage=22583432, Uptime=603108, ProcessCpuTime=10748468900, JITCTime=5345, GarbageCollectors=[Copy,MarkSweepCompact], GCTime=[120,486], GCCount=[21,6], Classes=2609, Threads=19

Steps to setup debugging:

1. Changed wt.properties.xconf:

name="wt.manager.cmd.MethodServer.nonibm.java.args" default="-XX:PermSize=72m-XX:MaxPermSize=200m -Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket, server=y, suspend=n, address=7777 -Djava.compiler=NONE"

2. run xconfmanager -p

3. Stop apache

4. stop tomcat

5. stop windchill

6. stop windchillDS

7. start windchillDS

8. start windchill

9. start tomcat

10. start apache

Any help is appreciated

So I recently upgraded my test server from 10.1 m040 to 10.2 m020.  I started testing stuff and came across something that is not a big deal from the big picture but a little disturbing that it would even happen, unless I've missed something that I need to do.

In 10.1 when I revised an object it would go from revision 2.2 to revision 3.0.  In 10.2 when I just tried it, the revision went from 2.2 to 3.1.  Is this normal with 10.2?  What happened to iteration 0?  Is there a preference for this?

Is there an easy way to add a custom attribute only to a specific task in a workflow?  For example, in the OOTB Change Notice workflow there is an Audit task.  How would I add an attribute to this task only?

-Ryan

Curious if anyone is leveraging Active Directory groups for access control in Windchill.  I am evaluating it right now and one of the hangups I'm running into is the inability to set permissions based on the combined membership of two different groups.

For example, let's say I have two groups in Active Directory:

• Windchill_Users
• Product_ABC_Users

The first group contains everyone in the company that is allowed to access Windchill.  The second group contains everyone one in the company who is allowed access to one particular product.  (Could be department, division, product team, whatever.)  This group has MANY more people in it - many who should never appear in Windchill.

In a perfect world, I would like to define access based on a join of these two groups.

• If a user exists in both groups then they are allowed access.
• If a user only exists in Windchill_Users, they can log in but they won't be able to access Product_ABC.
• If a user only exists in Product_ABC_Users, but not in Windchill_Users, then they can't log in at all (or even be listed in Windchill).

From my testing so far, I can prevent users from logging in via complex Apache filters, but ALL members of the Product_ABC_Users group are showing up in Windchill even though both the Info*Engine and Apache user filters are set to only allow users in the Windchill_Users group.

I really would like to avoid recreating a bunch of context specific groups in Windchill and then manually having to maintain membership on them individually.  Having the ability to check membership in multiple groups at the same time would really simplify things.  Has anyone figured out a way to accomplish something like this?

Thanks!

Is it possible within a Windchill workflow task to have the option to "delegate" a task to another user? Currently the option available is "re-assign" the task. I realize that the entire workflow can be delegated to another user through calendar options, however, I would like the user to have the option to delegate their task while actually accessing their task.  The reason we want "delegate" as an option within a task is that we do not want the task to return to the original user.  Is this possible within Windchill 10.1?

I am working in Docbook and I inserted a graphic.  Later, I made a change to the graphic.  How do I get the new graphic to show up in the Docbook to replace the old graphic? I want the graphic to replace the old one in Windchill.

I want to set/assign  the domain to a folder, And the API requires AdminDomainRef.

I want to Query and get this. But QuerySpech throws error saying it's not persistable object.

Can anyone sugest me how to get this....

Or How to set the domain to Folder Using API.

Thanks,

Hello all, How to get the user details for a given role and context(role and context are inputs) using a Queryspec which can be captured in a single query result.  Thanks in Advance

Hi. I've created the mvc component (table, that display a list of the WTDocuments). This component is placed inside the navigator page. The first field is the number and this field is the link to the info page.

final ColumnConfig docNumber;

                    {

                              docNumber = factory.newColumnConfig("number", true);

                              docNumber.setInfoPageLink(true);

                    }

The correct url to the info page should be: http://org.myorg.ru/Windchill/app/#ptc1/tcomp/infoPage?oid=VR%3Awt.doc.WTDocument%3A401274&u8=1

but windchill generate: http://org.myorg.ru/app/#ptc1/tcomp/infoPage?oid=VR%3Awt.doc.WTDocument%3A401274&u8=1

What is wrong?

Hi Experts,

I am building CAD driven product structure.

I have enabled auto create and Auto associate of WTPart when CAD object is checked in.

I want to create condition for WTPart creation [by auto creation] based on the attribute/object type from the CAD assembly.

• If the CAD object is Generic – Skip creating the WTPart
• If the CAD object has the attribute “BOM” with value “No” – Skip creating the WTPart
• If the CAD object has the attribute “COMP” with value “No” – Create Gathering Part instead of WTPart.

Let me know the possibility to achieve this.

• OIR configuration ?
• Attribute level conditions ?
• Customisation ?

Thanks

Murthi

In Windchill , we have mapped part_name & part_number as an attribute .

File name : Cad Name

Number     : part_number

Name         : part_name

So that, the attribute will be updated in Windchill based on the value assigned in the parameter list inside the care (Tools-Parameter).

In family table Generic & Instance, we have assigned the value for part_name & part_number (Ex: Part_name: Plate,  part_number: 12345).

The value remains same for Generic & Instance.

Since, the parameter  part_number: 12345 is same for generic & Instance (Note: enabled WT Parts), not allowing to upload.

It is showing error like"CAD part is not unique".

And we can't assign different part_number for generic & Instance as per our standard.

So, I want to know the best way to handle the family table part like above mentioned scenario

Hello to all;

I wanted to start this blog to share the success we have had over the last year leveraging Windchill's product structures bill of materials functionality and some customizations with our drawing publishing to provide a single data set for our type design documentation that would be viewable in both the client web browser and the mobile application. December 12th we went live with WTParts, doesn't sound like a big success with just that said. Over the next weeks I will  lay out our old documentation, configuration’s and the issues that surrounded that configuration.

How did the E-BOM help us transform into a single data entry point and single drawing artifact in Windchill? Thanks to the presentation in Boston, System Generated Drawings, I was able to use their concept and apply it to our drawings. Today in our production environment when a drawing is published at the end of the release workflow we are extracting the approver task name and date from the promotion request and the WTPart E-BOM and automatically appending it to the last page of the drawing PDF.

See Attached Drawing Example

One small thing that has an impact for the mobile applications is that we are also generating a PDF with watermarks along with the auto appended  page and attaching it to the drawing object in Windchill as an attachment. Note: The mobile application does not allow you to view the Creo drawings, only 3-D Models, Microsoft files and PDFs. This was not acceptable for our use to justify the deployment of  the mobile apps. With the appended PDF of the drawings  the mobile apps become a viable piece of technology.

Hopefully the following paragraphs will keep you interested. I know there are other companies out there working on this and others that are ready to implement, hopefully people will comment, ask questions and provide lessons learned from their experiences. I am in no way the expert on this topic.

2008 implemented Windchill 8.0 as Data Warehouse for all of our CAD data; (Including: Creo, Microstation, MS Word and MS Excel). At that time our configuration management group set states of files as they were manually released with a paper copy of the ECO. This was a migration from PTC Intralink to Windchill 8.0.

Our drawing package consisted of Creo Parametric 3-D models, 2-D drawings and an Excel spreadsheet for the Parts List fully revision controlled in Windchill. One area of concern with this was anyone viewing the data, had at a minimum, 2 artifacts displaying in the search results that had to be opened and viewed in Creo View to see the whole drawing packet and then had to navigate to the promotion request process tab to view the release information. Also any time a drawing packet was delivered to a supplier multiple artifacts were required to be exported from Windchill for each drawing. In addition when the engineering staff  Revised or Re-Numbered items, multiple artifacts needed to be updated and revisions keep in sync. This created an environment with multiple manual data entry of the same data into different software applications and Windchill UI's.

April of 2013 we worked jointly with the FAA to transition our CM manual paper ECO release processes into Windchill electronic workflows. Most of the workflows were re-configured from the out of the box standard promotion request workflow.

December 12th, 2014 we worked jointly with a consulting services organization and were able to implement WTParts for our 2nd conforming for flight test article aircraft, a new product offering planned for full production in 2015.

So what does this mean and who really cares?

Our aircraft products are world class and highly configurable at the point of sales. From a product structure architecture standpoint they are complex but not overwhelming. Over the next 6 months we will transform the Windchill E-BOM (WTParts) into a configurable product leveraging Windchill’s Options and Variants functionality to generate serialized E-BOMs for sold configurations from the overloaded E-BOM and manage serialized effectivity using Windchill’s Change Objects functionality. This is no longer a dream it will be a reality in a very short time.

The surprising thing is that my implementation team consisted of 1 full time individual (myself), 1 consultant 72 hours billed), 4-5 conference calls with a few of PTC's experts and a couple part time individuals (80 hours billed to project) and a management staff that allowed me to focus on this 100% of my time over the last year.

Below are bullet points of future blog additions I will cover. I will attempt to add these by the dates shown below.

    (12-27-14)   Project Overview, Planning & Actuals

                      Dissecting the System Generated-Appended Page

    (01-06-15)   Required Windchill Re-Configuration to implement WTParts (changes to existing Windchill configurations)

                      Windchill Customizations

    (01-06-15)    Handling Standard Parts, Material Specifications and Reference Specifications

                      Bill of Materials Expectations - how do you get consistency in your data?

    (01-09-15)    Decisions and Why

                      How did we enter 10,000 object line for top level structure

    (01-23-15)   Options and Variant

                      Prodcut Structure Architecture

    (02-13-15)   Configuration Management, Change Objects & Serialized Effectivity

    (03-06-15)   Enterprise System (MES, ERP, CRM) Integration Expectations

I encourage you to interact and ask questions, this is just one method we used and I am sure there are many ways to accomplish this.

Hi,

   Good day to all.

I have a situation that needs some advice on how to handle the same. We have been using Windchill for quite some time now. During our usage of BOM we have identified that the End product BOM always pulls for the latest version of the child parts irrespective of the version or state of the End Product. Will explain with an example now:

Say i have an End Product named "A" with below details

Is this how Windchill Normally behaves, i felt if this is the case then at any point of time no body will be able to retrive a old BOM.

Any help on this will be really appreviable.

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