Windchill Attribute Customization Overview
There are three steps to getting an attribute rendered in the UI.
1. Placing the attribute in the UI
2. Configuring the UI widget for the attribute (optional)
3. Customizing the source of data (optional)
Out of these, steps 1 and 2 are the most commonly needed steps. This document primarily deals with these two areas.
Placing the attribute in the UI
The local attribute containers supported by Windchill include:
• Attribute table. See Attribute Tables for more information.
Attributes can also be displayed on the UI outside these containers.
Configuring the UI widget for the attribute
OOTB Windchill automatically determines the UI components to be used for a certain attribute based on the following:
• Windchill UI standards
• The data type of attribute
• The constraints and other configurations defined on the attribute
The Windchill configuration points allow you to alter some of the rendering properties of the widget
For some very limited cases, it is possible to specify an alternate widget using a configuration. For all other cases, mapping an alternate widget to an attribute would require writing a custom data utility. See
Creating the Data Utility Class for more information.
Customizing the source of data
The source of the data for a given attribute on a given UI can be altered by configuring some of the data acquisition properties, but this should be used only for some very special customization requirements.