Certain entities within the ThingWorx Apps are not editable. PTC provides duplicates of these entities for use in customizations, such as the launch point configuration thing, mashups, and the tiles data table. If you have a standard license, and do not have access rights to create or duplicate entities, you can edit these duplicates to customize the apps.

For each release, PTC provides a configuration thing named PTC.Factory.C_LaunchPointConfigurationThing_[ReleaseVersion], for example PTC.Factory.C_LaunchPointConfigurationThing_8.5.0. This gives you the ability to link customized mashups to certain launch points, rather than using the default mashups delivered with the application.

To link to a customized mashup from a launch point in the PTC.Factory.C_LaunchPointConfigurationThing_[ReleaseVersion] configuration thing, customize the corresponding duplicate mashup for that launch point in the configuration table, and then change the configuration table to link to the new customized version.