When you view something in Creo View or Creo Illustrate, the appropriate configuration object’s location is based on the context of the object being viewed. The information stored on this configuration object allows the watermark setting in Creo to be configured from the server. To find the appropriate configuration, the system walks up the context hierarchy until it find a configuration object.

If you add a configuration at the site level, it applies to anything viewed it the system. If you add a configuration at a specific organization level, then the organization’s configuration overrides the site configuration for objects contained in the organization and its children.

For Windchill ProjectLink and Windchill PDMLink, the same thing is true at the product, project and library level. The client is launched in the context of the product, project and library.

For Windchill PDM, no context is specified and the configurations are applied at the site level.

The first file to be read is the config.ini file. The config.ini file contains the rules about how the watermarking in applied. Creo View locates this file by name. It also looks for the files based on the documents being viewed:

If the specific file does not exist, Creo returns config.ini, the general config file, allowing watermarks to be configured differently for different object types. The other files that should be included in the configuration are any files to which the config.ini file refers.

For instructions about how to lock Watermarks, see “Managing Preferences” in the Creo View Installation and Configuration Guide or the Creo Illustrate Installation and Configuration Guide.