Administrator Services
Certain capabilities are only available to an administrator user in ThingWorx. For example, the Monitoring and Import/Export menus (and associated services) are only visible for administrators. The following services can only be executed by an administrator user who belongs to the Administrators user group.
Dashboard Services
• GetDashboard — Locates a dashboard by ID.
• ShareDashboard — Dashboard can only be shared by the owner/creator of the dashboard or administrator user
• RemoveSharedOrganizationUnit — This service can only be run by the administrative user or creator/owner of the dashboard.
Root Entity Services
• SetOwner— Assigns an owner to an entity.
• CreateThingWithOwner — Assigns the owner of an entity upon creation, rather than using the default.
• CreateThingShapeWithOwner — Assigns the owner of an entity upon creation to the specified user, rather than using the user creating the entity. *
• CreateThingTemplateWithOwner — Assigns the owner of an entity upon creation to the specified user, rather than using the user creating the entity. *
• CloneThingWithOwner — Assigns the owner of an entity upon creation to the specified user, rather than using the user creating the entity. *
• CloneThingShapeWithOwner— Assigns the owner of an entity upon creation to the specified user, rather than using the user creating the entity. *
• CloneThingTemplateWithOwner — Assigns the owner of an entity upon creation to the specified user, rather than using the user creating the entity. *
• RequestEdit — For the defined entity, the user that calls the service is made the editor. The editing mode for the previous user is cancelled, and a warning message displays before changes are made. The last change made is honored.
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* = Available in ThingWorx 9.0.6+ and 9.1.1+.
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Resources/Session Info
• TerminateUserSessions— Terminates all active sessions for a user.
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PTC recommends using this service to terminate a user's session immediately prior to taking other administrative action, such as deleting the user's account, etc.
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Platform Subsystem
• SetAllowMethodSwitch— Allows method switching with request parameters (true is insecure). See Updating the Request Method and Content Type Filtering.
• SetFilterContentType— Filters content type on requests (false is insecure). See Updating the Request Method and Content Type Filtering
• GetDataConnectSettings — Retrieves the DataConnect configurations in the platform subsystem.
• SetDataConnectSettings — Sets the DataConnect configurations in the platform subsystem.
User Management Subsystem
• GetPlatformSessionTimeout — Returns the login session timeout in minutes.
Import Export (menu options in Composer)
• Import/Export
• Import/Export Source Control Entities
• Import from File/Export to File
Logging
• SetSubLoggerLevel — Sets the log level for a sublogger within the application.
• SetLogLevel— Sets the log level setting.
• DisableStackTracing— Turns off exception stack tracing for internal log statements that require it.
• EnableStackTracing— Turns on exception stack tracing for internal log statements that require it.
FileSystem Functions
• DumpFileTransferHistory— Utility service that dumps in-memory transfer history.
• AbortFileTransfer— Forces a FileTransfer job to VALIDATED.
Persistence Providers
• GetStreamDataProcessingSettings— Returns the configuration table for stream processor settings.
• GetValueStreamDataProcessingSettings — Returns the configuration table for value stream processor settings.
• UpdateStreamDataProcessingSettings— Updates the settings for stream data persistence.
• UpdateValueStreamDataProcessingSettings — Updates the settings for value stream data persistence.
• GetPersistentPropertyDataProcessingPerformanceMetrics — This service exposes metrics for Persistence Provider Stream Processor. This service also exposes metrics for each individual queue as well as over all queues. Internally stream processor divides the persistence provider queue into many smaller queues for better performance. The size of each individual queue = maximumQueueSize / numberOfProcessingThreads.
Alert Processing Subsystem
• GetAlertProcessorSettings — Returns the configuration table for alert processor settings.
• UpdateAlertProcessorSettings — Updates the settings for alert processing.
Event Processing Subsystem
• GetEventQueueProcessorSettings — Returns the configuration table for the event queue processor settings.
Logging Subsystem
• GetLoggingSettings — Returns the configuration table for logging settings.
• UpdateLoggingSettings — Updates the settings for logging.
Platform Subsystem
• DeleteExtensionPackage — Deletes the specified ExtensionPackage and all associated extensions if not in use.
• WriteEntityUsageReport — Generates and writes an entity usage report to the ThingworxStorage folder. See Entity Usage Report.
User Management Subsystem
• SetPlatformSessionTimeout — Sets the minutes for a session timeout when there is no activity.
Security Administrator
See User Groups for more information on these services.
• AssignNewPassword
• SetLanguagePreferences
• GetUserPreferenceInfo