Hi,
I think this is not first time when someone is facing this type of issue in Windchill 10.1 ,I tried to find out the solution but most of the blogs or consultants are saying that this could be the browser issue. In my case i think itis not coz i have tried with most of the browsers and their multiple versions....It would be appriciated if anyone can help me
Thanks
when we configure windchill as cluster what would be url seen by end users for follwing configuration
master --> installed with local host name say A
slave 1 --> copy of master A and did slave respective configuration.
slave -2 -> copy of master A and did slave respective configuration.
logical name is D server name.
what would be the server name used for accesing the application,
is it D ?? or something else ??
If we use D after first logon then will it change to Server A host name?? becuase slave and master is installed with server A hostname.
I am creating development system for Windchill9.1 M040.
But, we have no money.
So, we used opensource solutions.
It's work! And good performance.
Does nobody have the same experience?
Regards,
Ash Lynx
Japanese IT engineer
Any recommendations for a simple UI to retreive drawings from Windchill/PDMLink? Our shop floor users need a simple interface where they enter a part number, click search, a list of associated viewables and/or non-CAD documents is returned, they select the desired object, and it opens. Navigating to viewables using Windchill search tools is too complex and time consuming for that particular user base. I'm wondering if others have been down this road and, if so, what they've done as a solution.
Regards,
Jim
Hi All,
I'm pretty new to Windchill but I have scoured the PDM User's Guide, Business Admin Guide, and System Admin Guide, and I cannot find any way to make the email notification for a promotion request more... dynamic. That is, why the heck doesn't the description for the promotion request get sent in the email notification? The generic message entered under the "activity tab" of a workflow process is less than helpful. You would think that the promotion request description would be included in the notification email - this way you can see just from the email where that falls on your priority list.
Is there a method to doing this OOTB? If not, does anyone have any recommendations on where to look to find code that might help?
Thanks in advance!
If I know the id of an attachment, what is the correct URL I can use to programmatically download the attachment from another machine?
Example: I have a document: wt.doc.WTDocument:167663137 and the primary content is OR:wt.content.ApplicationData:167724372
How do I download the data?
gives me a page of javascript that will redirect a java-script capable browser to the content at
I need to URL to the content (no javascript available). Is there a simpler URL that will give me that?
We are about to start creating WTParts and will be primarily generating them from Creo parts and assemblies. Our item/part numbering system is based on our ERP system, i.e. cad models and cad documents in Windchill use the 10 digit number from ERP as both the filename and number fields (with file extension... 1234.prt).
The question I have is how to Number our WTParts. Our consultant is recommending to leave the autonumber function in place and creat a new attribute field in the WTPart for the item/part number (which would then be manually populated with the corresponding ERP number). I can come up with several reasons I do not like this approach, and very few ideas on why this may be best (the consultant said flexibility was the main reason to go this way).
Reasons I think this may not work well:
- the WTPart Number attribute becomes useless information at this point and would be best to just be hidden from view, unfortunately all the default search and display screens use Number
- multiple WTParts could be created for the same Item since the WTPart Number field is automatically unique for every new one created, but the Item/Part Number attribute would not have that control
- doing a WTPart to CAD Compare is very odd since the WTPart side shows the autogenerated number while the CAD side shows the actual part numbers
I could list more, but those are some of the main ones.
So what am I missing? My consultant says every one of their customers does it the way they are recommending to us.
Last rant for the day. I can't figure out why Windchill table views are so jacked up. Example: In the details tab of the implemention plan (or change task) screeen, the attachments are above the Affected objects, which are above resulting objects table. For some reason the display views default to where I can barely see what is in the resulting objects (example is true for any display of multiple vertical tables on the screen). It should be simple right? Just shrink the affected objects by dragging the table in. Well not really. The display manages to bring the above "don't care" features into view, and leave the resulting objects table near the bottom of the screen.
I'm not sure how you software geeks programmed the display views, but this is some seriously stupid functionality and it just ends up in multiple drags and some serious display manipulation, i.e. serious waste of time, i.e. inefficient. How did this pass beta testing? I cannot see one reason why this would be better user experience Just make the tables open and close normally, just like any other program. I've got a lot of work to do and I don't want to waste my time manipulating screens every time I navigate to a new page.
If you want to spend time making the experience better, then how about there is some algorithm that can tell how I manipulate my table display (column widths, table size) every single time I view them, and then after successive times of similar manipulation, it should just update my default table view settings.
Please and thank you.
Has anyone by chance figured out the script error issues in Windchill 10? Please tell me yes. This is super irritating!
Buddy Hudson
Greetings,
We've recently migrated to Windchill, we like the promotion process however the "out of the box" configuration allow the CAD author to completly bypass that process by simply using the "set state" option in the right click menu. I've configured the lifecycle template to not allow "set state" for transiitons but it still allows. I've also gone into Policy administration and tried to limit permissions, to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
Marc
I am using Windchill 10.1 with the M020 datecode. When i login and click on home page, it pops a spinning wheel and it keeps on spinning endlessly. It never stops and if we click on any other links like folders, workspaces, etc. then the corresponding page comes up. But the home page (landing page) is not working. Surprisingly for some other team members it is working properly and there is no known reason for this. Does anyone have a clue how to solve it?
To all,
We have a requirement to use alphabetical versions on rare occasions due to an existing process from configuration management. I would like to know how to add alphabetical version to my existing numeric versioning scheme. The guides are a little cryptic as usuall, and I was wondering if someone out there had an idea of how to do this.
Thanks to all in advance,
Buddy Hudson
I am looking to fill in a couple gaps in my knowledge how to create a custom scheduled job that will appear in WVS Job Scheduler Administration. I have been using the Windchill Customizer's Guide 9.1 for the initial set of steps.
I see I have to add some entries to the wvs.properties.xconf file as shown below from the guide.
Add the following to your wvs.properties.xconf file (edit as needed):
<Property default="MyCustomJob" name="myJob.description"/>
<Property default="ext.wvs.CustomJobs" name=" myJob.class"/>
<Property default="myCustomJob" name=" myJob.method"/>
<Property default="true" name=" myJob.enableOnContainers"/>
<Property default="myJob" name="schedulejobs<N>"/>
I have to create the java class (myJob.java) and then compile it to create the myJob.class.
I have two areas I am having difficulties getting through succesfully.
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qs.appendWhere(new SearchCondition(WTDocument.class,
Iterated.LATEST_ITERATION,
SearchCondition.IS_TRUE),
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2. actually compiling the myJob.java file. I included the import statements as shown below. I receive a lot of errors when I try to use 'javac' to compile the myJob.java routine. As I write this, I am wondering if my path variable is not set correctly to compile the routine cleanly. Any hints are greatly appreciated.
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package provisur.wvs.CustomJobs;
import java.util.Iterator;
import org.apache.log4j.Level;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import wt.doc.WTDocument;
import wt.epm.EPMDocument;
import wt.epm.build.EPMBuildRule;
import wt.fc.ObjectIdentifier;
import wt.fc.ObjectReference;
import wt.fc.ObjectVector;
import wt.fc.ObjectVectorIfc;
import wt.fc.Persistable;
import wt.fc.PersistenceHelper;
import wt.fc.QueryResult;
import wt.fc.collections.WTArrayList;
import wt.fc.collections.WTList;
import wt.inf.container.ContainerSpec;
import wt.inf.container.WTContained;
import wt.inf.container.WTContainerHelper;
import wt.inf.container.WTContainerRef;
import wt.log4j.LogR;
import wt.part.WTPart;
import wt.pds.StatementSpec;
import wt.pom.PersistenceException;
import wt.query.ClassAttribute;
import wt.query.QuerySpec;
import wt.query.SearchCondition;
import wt.query.SubSelectExpression;
import wt.representation.Representable;
import wt.representation.RepresentationHelper;
import wt.util.WTAttributeNameIfc;
import wt.util.WTException;
import wt.vc.Iterated;
import wt.vc.IterationInfo;
import wt.vc.VersionControlHelper;
import wt.vc.Versioned;
import wt.viewmarkup.DerivedImage;
import com.ptc.wvs.common.util.WVSProperties;
import com.ptc.wvs.server.util.PublishUtils;
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How can I prevent the workflow continuing to the next task, if the user still has the "Resulting Objects" checked out? (Windcill PDMLink 9.1).
When the user clicks "Complete Task", and an object is still checked out the workflow breaks (stalls). What can I add so the workflow checks for the checked out object and pops up a message to the user that the object is still checked out? I have very little programming. Thanks.
Hello
I was wondering if any of you had any ideas on how to sort out an issue that I am having.
I have a pretty simple review, approve release workflow that is initiated every time a certain type of object is created.
Now when it goes through the default type activities in the workflow you can add a comment in the comment field and select a routing.
What I am having a problem with is the fact that these comments, which should be showing up in the process status section of the task but they only appear if you are an admin and I need them to be there for standard users.
Is there also a better way of communicating changes/comments on a standard task to the next user in the cahin other than this process.
Bear in mind that I am not a developer and have limited Java knowledge. I just utilise the configuration tools to help me get thesystem up and running.
Thanks in advance
Oleg
Any recommendations for a simple UI to retreive drawings from Windchill/PDMLink? Our shop floor users need a simple interface where they enter a part number, click search, a list of associated viewables and/or non-CAD documents is returned, they select the desired object, and it opens. Navigating to viewables using Windchill search tools is too complex and time consuming for that particular user base. I'm wondering if others have been down this road and, if so, what they've done as a solution.
Regards,
Jim
Hi,
I think this is not first time when someone is facing this type of issue in Windchill 10.1 ,I tried to find out the solution but most of the blogs or consultants are saying that this could be the browser issue. In my case i think itis not coz i have tried with most of the browsers and their multiple versions....It would be appriciated if anyone can help me
Thanks
Last rant for the day. I can't figure out why Windchill table views are so jacked up. Example: In the details tab of the implemention plan (or change task) screeen, the attachments are above the Affected objects, which are above resulting objects table. For some reason the display views default to where I can barely see what is in the resulting objects (example is true for any display of multiple vertical tables on the screen). It should be simple right? Just shrink the affected objects by dragging the table in. Well not really. The display manages to bring the above "don't care" features into view, and leave the resulting objects table near the bottom of the screen.
I'm not sure how you software geeks programmed the display views, but this is some seriously stupid functionality and it just ends up in multiple drags and some serious display manipulation, i.e. serious waste of time, i.e. inefficient. How did this pass beta testing? I cannot see one reason why this would be better user experience Just make the tables open and close normally, just like any other program. I've got a lot of work to do and I don't want to waste my time manipulating screens every time I navigate to a new page.
If you want to spend time making the experience better, then how about there is some algorithm that can tell how I manipulate my table display (column widths, table size) every single time I view them, and then after successive times of similar manipulation, it should just update my default table view settings.
Please and thank you.