I am exploring option to complete work item using a Java or Inforengine tasks. Thingworx has out of the box CompleteWorkItems service. It does not take Voting ( Approve / Reject) as an input parameter. So I am wondering if anyone has explored completing the workitem with a Vote option in WIndchill.
Thanks for your help.
Preeti
We have configured and customised Windchill PDMLink to show some of the CAD Document information on native MCAD drawings created with Creo Parametric and SolidWorks, by using a combination of implicit mapping of Attributes and customised copies of the "download delegate" and the Promotion workflows. At the end of the workflows, the Lifecycle state changes and the drawings get re-published by WVS and the cadworkers, to make new PDFs showing the latest version, Lifecycle state, etc. Hence both the native CAD drawings and the PDF viewable copies show exactly the same information in the drawing title block.
The same behaviour is not possible for ECAD applications, such as Creo Schematic or PCBCAD tools from eg. Mentor Graphics, because they have a set of native files that get ZIPed up to make the ECAD Document primary attachments, and the viewables are (typically) made on the client-side automatically during the check-in process. Hence there is no mechanism for sharing Attributes & values between Windchill WGM and the native ECAD drawing files, and no sensible way to re-publish the viewable copies after approval in order to show the new version and state.
Following discussions with PTC and our VAR, and as I have described on another recent posting (add cross-ref. here ...), it seems the best solution for ECAD would be to add watermarks or stamps to the PDFs (copies of drawings, etc, attached to ECAD Derived documents) in order to add and show the missing metadata. I have been searching the PTC websites and the Internet for information about the various ways this might be achieved, and found quite a lot of it is confusing - as the terms watermark and stamp sometimes get mixed up. I have even read about some PDF stamping tools that apply watermarks, and vice versa !
Can anyone confirm or clarify the following tentative conclusions :
I think that stamps may be more versatile than watermarks, as they may be more easily sized and positioned to fill in a title block on different sizes of drawing sheet (A4, A3, A2, A1, A0) ?
I think that stamps are applied on top of the visible information, and that watermarks are applied behind the visible information, and that both can be made opaque or translucent ?
I think that stamps can be omitted when printing PDFs but that watermarks cannot as long as they were created with the relevant options set to prevent them being hidden ?
I think that the watermarking functionality in WVS only works on files viewed in Creo View, and that if a PDF viewable is downloaded it will not show that watermark ?
There are a few, possibly several, third party tools for adding watermarks and/or stamps to PDFs, and of particular interest are the ones that can be used from the command line (using java or javascript, as these might be used in workflows or perhaps with the WWGMTK...), from companies that provide add-ons or consultancy services for Windchill, as mentioned by other users on this forum (eg. Fishbowl, Najanaja, Wincom). Can anyone describe how they have used any of these tools with the ECAD WGM and PCBCAD applications ?
Nick
I know many on these boards use Fishbowl's LinkAccess Trigger.
Does anybody know if PTC has any plans to come out with something similar in the near future or if it's even a consideration? Can anyone from PTC comment about any plans in this area?
Hi,
Two questions..
1. In windchill 11, why iam not able to see the action "Open in Product Structure Explorer"?
2. in Windchill 10.2, Why iam not able to add the tab " Related Objects" in the PSE ? See Below.,
Thanks
Hari
Is there a way to get this routing choices from an user work item. I do not see any api to get routing choices before the work item is completed. It appears that they are generated dynamically. Any ideas?
I appreciate any help.
thanks.
Hi,
We have just updated our TEST System to 10.2 M030 CPS10 (only released today) and I am trying to compile the CATIA V5 Abstraction dll's for the WGM.
I have successfully compiled dll's for CATIA versions 18 to 24, but version 25 fails with the error saying "ERROR - Abstraction or loader files don't exist"
It seems a bit strange when setting up the compilation environment as the CATVBTsetup command does not show a Visual Studio checkbox, only showing an Eclipse/IBM Rational Applications one, which I think is indicative that something is wrong (presumably with the CATIA / API / RADE) software - but I have tried this with both GA and SP3 versions of the CATIA software and get the same issue. In which case, others should be seeing this problem too.
I have logged a call with PTC, but was wondering if anyone else had seen this?
Rgds
Gary
We use Design View and Plant View for WTPart. and attach specification document to both views -- as design view and plant view could be different spec.
When promoting the specification document to release, it would collect related WTPart in the promotion process. However, it would only collect the latest one revision of object -- i.e., not the latest of Design and Plant view revision but latest one either Design or Plant view depending which one was modified latest. Even if manually collect both views in to promotion form, it says promotion can only deal with one version of object, and hence for me to choose between the Design View or Plant View.
Obviously the users do not like it, as they can only promotion one view with the spec doc revision (likely design view), and have to go to individual plant view to manually attach the newly release spec. document.
wondering anyone else having the same problem.
PTC released the PSM 5.0 F000. Has anyone try it out yet?
I am currently testing PSM 4.0 M010 in Test env. Not sure if I should wait for PSM 5.0 M010 (or later), or I should try F000. I always try to avoid the F000 build code.
If anyone has try this, can you share your experiences?
Thanks,
Thomas Chao
Hi everybody,
I have a question concerning the Solid Edge template management.
- How to import a local Solid Edge template to a Windchill PDMLink server ?
Thanks by advance
Regards
Eric
After creating a New Project from a Project Template (Having a Document Structure), Document Structure is not propagated in the newly created project.
Step 1 - A project was created
Step 2 - A document structure was created in it
Step 3 - This Project was saved as a Project Template
Step 4 - A new project using the above template was created
The Document Structure did not propagate in the newly created project. However, all the documents were propagated individually
Who can help me to solve this problem, my code is:
public class Test {
/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
URL url= new URL("http://whichen-ws01.cisco.com/Windchill");
RemoteMethodServer rms=RemoteMethodServer.getInstance(url);
rms.setUserName("wcadmin");
rms.setPassword("wcadmin");
System.out.println("login succeed!");
Class argTypes[]={String.class, String.class, String.class, String.class};
Object argValues[]={
"Whichen_demo_name2",
"Whichen_demo_number2",
"Whichen_demo_file2",
"C:\temp\rule.xml"
};
//accessing the method of a utility class which is in windchill codebase directory
rms.invoke("createDoc", "com.cisco.whichen.DocManager", null, argTypes, argValues);
System.out.println("Succeeded!");
}
}
My local host file is:
127.0.0.1 localhost whichen-ws01.cisco.com # whichen-ws01
Looking forward to your kindly help.
Hi all,
I want to hide/show Step 2 of a wizard based on the type selected in Step 1. Have anyone done anything similar in javascript? Any help is appreciated.
Can anyone help me with a use-case to understand the integration between Adobe Livecycle Form Server & Windchill for managing Smart Forms (PDF's). The requirement is to pre-populate forms with Windchill business objects attributes & Workflow variable automatically.
Attached is the screen-shot of Adobe Windchill Integration Overview.
Regards,
Nishant Kapoor
Hi,
We are looking to integrate Windchill PLM to SAP Integration. Our goal is transfer real time data (BOM, parts) to SAP. We are looking at options on what are the best options here.what are your thoughts on using SOAP based JMS queue concept?
We want to use SAP PI system instead of TIBCO and wanted to see if we need ESI framework in order to do real time integration?
Also what is the best way for error handling mechanism where in scenarios such as if sap pi server is down, can we monitor the failed messages from PTC PLM side and can we resend those message once the SAP PI is up.
Thanks
Raj
Hi all,
Do we have any certification for PTC Windchill ?
If yes I have tried searching the portal but I did not find anything.
Can you please let me know like where can I find certification related materials or like where to book a slot for the same.
Best Regards,
Aditya Achanta
I have been working through the Change Request workflow developed when Windchill was implemented in 2008 by another admin. He had the ability to create a Change Notice turned off, even though he had a node in the Change Request workflow to require them. I got the Profile modified to allow Change Notices to be created, and the option now shows up in Actions. However, when I select Create Change Notice, the screen opens and a message pops up saying "You do not have create permissions for the object". I looked in preferences and found nothig. What setting do I need to toggle to get the required permissions?
Am migrating a data from Pro/Intralink 3.4 to PDMLink 9.1 system using Pro/Intralink Data Migrator. While running the Document loader I found the Revision Series mapped for migration was wrong. We noticed it within minutes and aborted the migration. Then I mapped the correct Revision Series and restarted the migration.
Now the Migrator took the right Revision Series and ran till Family Tables Loader. However we later noticed that 2 Family Tables did not get migrated as it threw an exception in the logs. While investigating that issue we found that some more objects did not get migrated at all though we couldn’t trace the errors in the logs for the missing objects. Now we need to guidance to solve the issue so that we can proceed with the migration.
why Windchill tool option is not available in windchill PDMLink? for more information please refer attached.
can you please help me.
Best Regards
Sharan.
6.2.6 Software Compatibility:
Hello,
we are running windchill 6.2.6 on HP Unix 11 & oracle 9 and looking to upgrade the OS and oracle version to the possible upward compatible versions, can anyone suggest which could be the possible latest OS & oracle I can move on to continue running windchill 6.2.6.
I am looing for some reference who already tried and currently running this old server or have suggestions from their experience. Thanks in advance!!!
In a Material content report , there are two columns (E & R) for quantity. The first one adds up the quantity of MPNs for that item. What do column R signify. It always show the value as 1 . Where is this value being picked from?