I am getting this message after the data validation stage of Post migration step in migration of data from Pro Intralink to PDMLink .
Can anyone please provide any solution?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and regards,
SJ
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wt.util.WTException: The operation: "testOnServer" failed.
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Query Builder for Live Project Status Reports (NPI, Large Engineering Change, etc.)
Situation:
- We are doing a large new Product Introcution (NPI) project that is converting an existing, large, unlinked Creo / WTPart product structure into a linked structure that uses Options & Variants, Options Modeler, and MPMLink.
- Our configurable product structure is undergoing a design review and quality assurance process from the bottom up by configuration items that we call, "Config Assemblies."
- Each config assembly has work that we model as a "Change Task" that includes reviewing, testing, and approving that configuraiton and it related objects.
- Closely related tasks are on the same Change Notice.
- All Change Notices in the project are linked to a single Change Request that ties the project together.
- We have a project plan with need dates for each of the tasks.
- Our resource contraints and task dependencies result in a plan with estimated start and no-later than "Need Dates" for the approval of each task in order to achieve our deadline.
- In our Windchill implementation and business process, of our Windchill part, CAD, and document objects "Release" on Change Notices as Resulting Objects on Change Tasks.
Problem: How can we use Windchill to present daily project status so we know what is done, what is not done yet, what is done early, and what is late?
Solution: Query Builder Rocks! Using Query Builder and some tricks that make it all come together, we have live reports, like the one below, with supporting graphs that we run every day at 5 PM to track status. Everything in this post is out of the box except for "light types" that we have defined using the Type and Attribute Manager. None of graphs or reports are customized. This is possible for any business admin in Windchill 10.1 or later (and maybe earlier) who can set these up without ever requiring a code change or system restart.
We can export this to excel using the actions drop down, but since this is pre-sorted in Need Date Order, and I can easily manipulate the charts by clicking on the elements that I want to either hide (by clicking on the legend item) or filter the Results Table (by clicking on one of the elements inside of a chart), I don't need excel. Also, I can use "Find in Table" to additionally filter items to focus on specific items of interest. I can also click the information icon to look at the details of any task in a new window, as well. For example, in the report, above, by clicking on the "Done" and "Not Late" items in the legend of the pie chart, the report auto-hides those items focusing on the remaining "Done Early" and "Late" items. By then clicking directly on the "Late" slide of the pie, the "Results Table" filters to ONLY show the Late Tasks.
Here is how we did this "out of the box."
To start, you have to know the basic object model for changes and linked items. Here is a picture.
We then set up a master Change Request (ECR) with multiple Change Notices (ECNs) that each have Change Tasks (ECTs). On each ECT we have Resulting Objects (CAD, Parts, Documents) that need to be approved and released together. However, not all tasks are equal since some tasks represent major configuration items, while others are supporting tasks. Our project plan tracks configuration items by part number, and we want to track only those tasks, not all tasks on all of the ECNs. Therefore, we use query builder to only show ECTs associated with our master ECR that have Part Numbers in our project plan by copying that comma-sparated list of part numbers into an "IN" criteria.
We also have different kinds of configuration items. We indicated their category with an ECT Name pre-fix. This is easier than using light types or attributes because the same config item might change its category in our project plan without changing its light type or attributes. These categories aligns tasks with internal departments, so they are really for status and project management. For example, an ECT with the prefix "CCA-" is a "Controls Config Assembly", "CAE-" is a Config Assembly (Engineering)", a "CAM" is a "Config Assembly (Manufacturing)", etc. In query builder we use functions to parse out those prefixes for reporting and graphing.
Finally, I wanted to show ECTs as "Late", "Not Late", "Done Early", or "Done". I did not want to customize. I did not want to use numbers (i.e. 0 = On Time). I wanted "done" be be either an ECT in the state of "Completed" or "Approved". To achieve this, I used a series of functions and some "look up" parts linked to the master ECR to calcuate if an ECT is ahead or behind schedule, and then look up that numeric result from the linked "look up" parts on the ECR to show their part "Name" as "Late", "Not Late", "Done Early", or "Done". Below is a picture of these look up parts. They will make more sense later when you see how we use them.
Here is the step by step process for setting this all up in query builder.
FROM and JOIN
SELECT - Notice the use of "In String" to parse the ECT Name Prefixed into a column called "ECT Type" for reports and graphs. Also notice the use of "Left Trim" to present the dates in the report without the annoying MM:HH:YYYY TIM suffix that a date columns typically has. Also notice the "ECT Need Date (Sort)" column, which is needed because you cannot sort accurately on a column that uses LEFT TRIM on a date.
Note the use of "Distinct" and "Group By" for the "SELECT Tree."
Also notice the "Look Up Status Part.Name" that allows me to show "Late" or other text values for the number returned by the subselect, defined, below.
CRITERIA - Notice the Part Master.Number IN clause that lists ONLY the part numbers of our "config items" that we want to report on. This will only show the ECTs that are linked to the config items in our project plans, not the other supporting ECTs.
Also notice the "Subselect" for the "Look Up Status Part.Number" that allows me to
Sub-Select... - This is the really fun part! This is how we figure out if something is late or not.
This math, below, reduces Need Date relative to System Date (now) to either a 1 or -1 value by the following formula.
(ECT.Need Date minus System.Date) divided by the absolute value of [ (ECT.Need Date minus System.Date) ].
We then have to know if we are "done" yet by state using In String on the states of "APPROVED" and "COMPLETED". In String returns -1 if the string is not found, and 1 if it is found. So, this formula, below, results in 1-1-1=-1, or 1+1-1=1.
The on time formula results in 0, 1, 2, or 3. I wanted to have look up part numbers that match, but in my database, 1 and 2 were used, so I arbitrarily "multiply" the results by 10 to give me Part Numbers I can use: 0, 10, 20, 30.
0 = Late
10 = Done
20 = Not Late
30 = Done Early
And yes, anything "Done Early" will eventually become just "Done" once its need date passes. This is fine with us!
That is it for the sub-select. Back to the main report...
SORT - We finally short by the ECT Need Date (Sort) in Ascending (old to new) then by part number (Config Number) and then by Projectc ECT Type (the ECT Name Prefix prior to the - ).
GRAPHS - Run the report, select all the columns, then build your graphs, like this.
In the results, as shown above, click "Create a chart for the table" three times, once for each graph. The interface for making a graph looks like this.
When you like what you see, then Save the Report. You can then access the report from the context "Reports" link any time you want to run a fresh status report with live graphs! Here, again, is the first image from above - the fully interactive, sortable, filterable, exportable project status report.
This was fun to make. And it is very useful on our current project. We use it every day for status to see how we are doing, and what's coming up next. It does not replace MS Project, but it does help get true, live, linked status quickly without e-mails or meetings.
Regards,
Al Anderson
PLM Functional Architect
Solar Turbines Incorporated
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Scenario: Engineer creates a structure (CAD or Product) including Part A in the assembly. Later the Engineer changes the BOM to replace Part A with Part B in the structure. I need to be able to record the event that Part A superseded Part B, capture it in an attribute "Superseded By" and send it to ERP.
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Comments appreciated.
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I have some templates for WTDocument.
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How do you delete a global attribute from a type?
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How do you delete a newly created global attribute after you add it to a type?
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- Decided the attribute should have been a string instead of an integer, and with no way to redefine that, want to delete the attribute from the type.
- Found the new attribute, selected it, and clicked the Delete icon.
- Got an error message about the attribute being used in 8 layouts.
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2. Is there a built-in way to export a list of the baseline items? (my current workaround is compare to an empty baseline and copy/paste the data from popup - very clunky).
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Configure Auto Suggest Picker (SuggestTextBox) on object creation page?
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I am trying to implement Auto Suggest picker (SuggestTextBox) on WTDocument/WTPart creation wizard in Windchill 10.1. Does anybody have done this before?
Can anyone please help me on this?
Appreciate your help.
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Shirish
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@RBEntry("hello, {0}!!!")
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@RBArgComment0("a noun")
public static final String HELLO="0";
}
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The server is up to 1 hr now and I get the same error in my browser. Please help.
Thank you.
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