Hello,
Where I work we have Mechanical CAD Librarians who create standard parts such as screws, connectors, etc. These parts are in a folder named 'Standard Parts'. These parts are not modifiable by the Mechanical DE's, which is a good thing.
However, in the day-to-day design activities, sometimes these parts unintentionally become 'modified' as far as Windchill is concerned. Not by playing with the part features, but by something as innocent as hiding it in an assembly. (I'm not really sure what leads up to this status change, since I'm not staring at Workspace after every thing I do) This means the parts cannot be uploaded to the Server. Sometimes they are marked as 'ineligible for upload', 'modified', 'upload required' or even NEW. There are the various ways to deal with this, 'Make Read Only', 'Update' etc. , but sometimes the part is so out of whack, the only way to fix it is to check the part back out from the Library ONE AT A TIME. This can be very tedious. I know sometimes you can delete the bogus part out of the Workspace, but even then, it sometimes requires that the part be deleted from it's assembly first.
So I'm not looking for ways to deal with these issues when they pop up, I know how to do that. I know I can set part status to 'LOCK', but even this is tedious when it has to be done every time I bring an assembly out from the Library.
What I am looking for is IF there is a way to set a Directory/Folder up so that when parts are retreived from it they are automatically set to 'LOCK', thus preventing any false modification and status change in the Workspace, and if there is a way to do that, HOW do I do that?
Thanks!
ML
Using WF4 M030 Windchill PDMLink 9.0