Okay, I can't find anything in the massive amounts of reference documentation that make suggestions for sizing a replicated server. I know that disk space and speed are going to be important, but how about CPU and memory? We are looking at setting up a replicated server at our other location and I'm in the server sizing and if we will be able to do any acceleration or not. The lower the cost for the server, the better chance of possibly getting WAN Acceleration of some sort. The other site has about 30 Windchill users and will have CREO users on and off. We are on Windchill 10.2 with plans to go to Windchill 11 next year. We are dealing with about 500 GB of data in our file vaults and add 200-800 MB a day.
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Replication Server Sizing
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List of all disabled/expired user account
Is There a way to generete a report or a list of all windchill users which have the account disabled or expired?
Does this list be retrived from windchill or from WindchillDS?
I try to do a report listing the user "Disabled", but this is not what I need; I need all the user in the LDAP with the account disabled or expired.
Does anyone know how can I have this information?
Thanks in advance
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Single Sign-On for Windchill with Apache, Shibboleth, and ADFS - Has Anyone Done This Before?
I am picking up an in-process project of configuring SSO with the software mentioned in the question, and as I dive in I wanted to put out a question to the user community here to see if anyone has implemented this within their environment, and if so, could provide any helpful details/information as I go forward. Even if not the exact same software environment, but configuring SSO in general, that would be a significant help.
Thanks in advance!
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Change Notice Multiple Paths
I'm working on expanding our Change Notice workflow yet again. I have a situation I think will work (or is at least possible) but want to get feedback before going down this path too far.
At one stage of the CN workflow, there is a Change Manager role that will choose which downstream departments will get CN tasks for each particular CN. I've set it up using the Routing tab with a 'Manual' routing type. The intent is that the Change Manager can choose between one and four routes using check boxes in the assigned activity.
My concern is the AND collector at the tail end of these four routes. If the Change Manager chooses less than the full allotment, will the AND collector stall out the process waiting for the other paths to complete even when those other routes were not chosen by the Change Manager?
The other issue involves the Manufacturing-Engineering path (see image). If the Mfg. Eng. ECO Task has not been completed but one of the other paths does complete, will the system know to pause at that AND collector until the 'Synch on CA Complete' is resolved? Or should perhaps that 'Synch' robot be used in place of the AND collector?
Of course, I appreciate pointing out any other issues you may see.
Reference image:
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I was trying to search for an object (a medusa file);Can any one help me with the significance of the error attached in the screenshot?
I'm not sure if the object is present or not present in Windchill
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Anyone using JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Windchill
I have some questions that are specific about Windchill integration into JDE. More specifically pushing additional information into JDE, such as PTC_MATERIAL.
Short history: My company has been using Windchill now for about 8 years. Our parent company is now pushing out their own Windchill implementation that is directly tied into JDE, was initially deployed with non-fabricated items in mind, and has only been used up to this point by business units that only sell to other business units. All of this has some what tied our hands, and I have no direct contacts that I can get information from on what is/isn't possible in JDE. My impression is our JDE people don't want to change, so our Windchill people are trying to work around it. Also, HQ is in France, so there is a language barrier that complicates things.
Anyone with some knowledge on this, I would love to pick your brain a little. I'm not sure how many companies are using JDE and Windchill, but since both are common softwares, I'm hoping to find someone.
A few questions I already know I need answered:
- Are there limits to what parameters JDE can receive from WC?
- Can field lengths JDE be modified? (told 30 characters is max field length)
- Being told we can only Promote drawings as promoting models will break link between either Model/WTParts or WTParts/JDE. I have yet to understand which they are referring to. They said it was related to the fact that JDE info can be updated without CAD/Windchill info being updated. I think.
Thanks.
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How to run multiple levels of RBD calcs at once in quality solutions
In our RBD models we typically have multiple levels of indenture in the overall block diagram. It would seem that running at the top level should automatically run all lower levels to get the proper results. But it seems we have to run from the lowest level up individually to ensure there are results at all levels. When now not doing this some results disappear or reset from the RBD Table.
Is this a setting somewhere or has anyone else had success running all at once? Trying to determine what we might have done wrong.
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Windchill Business Rule Error
wt.system.err wcadmin - Nested exception is: wt.util.WTException: Rule configuration is invalid for rule wt.businessRules.BusinessRule
2016-07-24 15:20:41,881 INFO [RMI TCP Connection(151)-10.0.2.15] wt.system.err wcadmin - at wt.businessRules.ixb.forclasses.ExpImpForBusinessRule.preStoreValidate(ExpImpForBusinessRule.java:116)
2016-07-24 15:20:41,881 INFO [RMI TCP Connection(151)-10.0.2.15] wt.system.err wcadmin - at wt.businessRules.ixb.forclasses.ExpImpBusinessRuleCommon.storeObjects(ExpImpBusinessRuleCommon.java:47)
2016-07-24 15:20:41,898 INFO [RMI TCP Connection(151)-10.0.2.15] wt.system.err wcadmin - at wt.ixb.actor.PickingExistingObjectActorForPersistable.storeObjects(PickingExistingObjectActorForPersistable.java:184)
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How to generate ACL report in windchill 11
for windchil 9 or 10, the following way used to give ACL report
| 1. | Open Windchill Shell. |
| 2. | Run the following command from Windchill Shell: windchill wt.tools.support.ACLReport <output_file> where <output_file> is the file name and path where you want to export the ACL's. |
| 3. | Open the text file and search for the products whose ACL's are of concern. |
Note : It dumps all the access rights on all the object and roles in the system.
However, if the same procedure is used for windchill 11, it throws error.
Can someone help in this, may be some step is missing ?
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Windchill LCA
Hello everybody
I am currently working with WPA and am very interested in start using the LCA tool but I do not seem able to have access to it, no matter what I do. Has anybody used this tool so far and has an idea on how to get access?
Thank you in advanced!
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Windchill PDMLink - MS SQL Server DBA, workload
We've been on Windchill PDMLink for managing our Pro/E / Creo CAD data for nearly 4 years. We've grown to approximately 50 users, but still use it primarily as a CAD vault. We are in the process of upgrading from 10.0 M030 to 11.0 M010, are planning implementation of Change and Configuration Management and on the horizon plan to connect PLM to ERP (Infor Syteline). As the reach of the system grows and it becomes even more critical, we're considering the need for a MS SQL DBA to really optimize and maintain the various databases (those of PLM, ERP, various other internally created databases) as well as best define which is the master owner of each slice of information and how the systems can share information.
For Windchill, I've been asked to summarize what the regular tasks for a DBA would be and how much time it would consume. In going back and reading through PTC's "Best Practice Activities for Windchill System Monitoring and Maintenance", I've constructed the following (below) - but the time requirements for a SQL DBA are purely a guess. Keep in mind, doing the basics outlined in the PTC doc have kept it running smoothly with minimal intervention....but as we seek to better use the system and the information in it (not just the CAD files it manages), that's not going to suffice.
I'm looking for feedback both on the content and time required for a DBA's regular tasks for Windchill when used as PLM (not just CAD vault) and interconnected with other systems such as ERP.
Windchill PDMLink 10.0 M030, soon 11.0 M010
all servers running MS Windows, hosted on VMware 6.0
Veeam used for backup and replication
Regards,
Erik Gifford
G.W. Lisk Co., Inc.
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Limiting Search Results
Hello everyone,
wants to limiting the search results, i tried
Search results can be limited by configuring the following properties:
• com.ptc.windchill.search.queryLimit
• wt.pom.paging.snapshotQueryLimit
• wt.pom.queryLimit
change the above properties but could not restrict the search also change table size in preference management.
but i am not able to restrict the search result.
Thanks in Advance
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"Described by" Attribute in Configurable Describe Link
Hi,
Is there a way to remove the "Single Value" constraint on the Configurable Describe Link , as shown below..?
There is some business justification and reason behind this, but want to know the technical feasibility.
We are likely to use a sub type of Configurable describe link and want to have one to Many relationship within one link.
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Out of Date Check - how does it work?
Hi,
Wondering about the preference available at site level, in the workspace section, called "Out of Date Check":
I set it to "yes" so that users would be notified about out-of-date objects, as the following screenshot teases:
https://thingworx.ptc.com/apps/solution_preview/solution/lang/presolution?lang=en&n=CS47173
(Which shows a clock icon at the top of the table near the "Pick an action" drop down)
But the preference doesn't seem to have any effect for me and I haven't been able to see this aforementioned out-of-date icon.
This is what I tried:
Using Creo 2, connected to Windchill 10.2 using the internal Mozilla browser.
Added a revision 0.1 model to my workspace.
Another user checked out this model, modified it and checked back in; Commonspace now is at 0.2.
My workspace shows no notification, even after I wait 5 minutes, nothing happens; I try to refresh the page -nothing...
does anyone know if this functionality could be working for us ? We use Windchill 10.2 and Creo 2.0.
Maybe I'm not expecting it to work the way it is intended...
Is there is there some auto-refresh setting that I am missing?
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Check in failed because "ModelCHECK failed on model(s) in the context "
Im having a problem trying to check in some files from creo, this is what It appears when I try to check in, does anyone can help me to resolve this.
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Default option when deleting
I don't think there is a preference but wanted to check with everyone. Is there a preference that allows me to change what the default option is when trying to delete something? I would like it to be Delete latest iterations of each object included in the table.
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How to manage As-Build and As-Maintained BOM´s in PTC product portfolio?
The PLM area are growing to cover more and more of traditional ERP domains. With IoT and digital twins follows the needs to store the configuration of the physical product over time (As-Build and As-Maintained structure). In Windchill we can manage part configurations and part instances, but there is limitations aw the instance structure can be changed/maintained independently over time. What is PTC´s recommendation to meet this need? What products or solution is covering the use case?
Best regards
Per
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SQL Query to find out BOM
Dear community,
I need to find out what database tables store the information about the bill of material of the products. Need to find out the top level nodes and all linked epm documents or parts.
What we try to do is get the files of all products so we can Export all products from windchill.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
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How can I insert a basic events in the dynamic gate FDEP (Functional Dependency Gate)?
Hello Guys,
I am building a dynamic fault tree, and I have some difficulty. Does anyone know how can I insert a basic events in the dynamic gate FDEP?
When I insert Logic Gate FDEP automatically opens the trigger, however I want to insert others 2 basic events that depend on the trigger.
I want to do this:
Anyone can help me please?!
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WinDu
Planning on a late year upgrade from PDMLink 10.0 m040 to PDMLink 11.0 m010.
When I go into WinDu. the only upgrade option is: Windchill 10.0 to 10.2 Pre-Upgrade Mandatory.
Is there a new WinDu that needs to be installed on top of 10.0 m040 that will perform the mandatory checks for a PDMLink 11.0 upgrade?
I have installed the following patches for WinDu/WinRu after I upgraded to m040:
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