Advanced Customization
Advanced Customization
This category contains information on customizing optional Windchill products and advanced customization points for product functionality. This includes business object customization, infrastructure customization, Windchill task creation, and so on.
The customization content is updated frequently. The most current customization content is available as a PDF from the Reference Documents page of ptc.com: https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/doc/refdoc.jsp.
Did You Know?
Historically, Windchill has stored plain-text password values in files and relied on appropriate access permissions to restrict access to those files. Now these passwords can be encrypted to no longer display the plain-text value when viewing the file. For more information, see Encrypted Passwords.
You can customize security labels to provide the set of security label values for a given custom security label. You can also customize security labels to determine authorized participants for each security label value on either a standard or custom security label. For more information, see Customizing Security Labels.
You can customize the participant selection table for change tasks and promotion requests to have greater control over what is displayed. For more information, see Multiple Participant Selection Wizard Customization.
You can create an action associated with a business object which will immediately execute a set of business rules and provide feedback on the outcome. For more information, see Evaluating Business Rules On Demand.
You can customize a change notice or task template to use different object initialization rules than what are used for a change notice or task that is not a template. For more information, see Change Template Initialization Rules.
You can customize the change activity workflow template to assign rework activities to the users that actually completed the original activities, rather than to the whole team. For more information, see Customizing Change Activity Workflow Assignments
You can add the Export List to XLS and Export List to PDF actions to action models to make them available from the Plan table in Windchill ProjectLink. For more information, see Adding Export Functionality in the Project Plan Table.
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