Retail Profile
Users must be a member of the Retail profile to have access to PTC FlexPLM. This profile is created out-of-the box. Additionally, a Retail group is created as a member of this profile.
• PTC FlexPLM uses Windchill profiles to provide a simplified Windchill PDMLink user interface for typical PTC FlexPLM users. The Retail user profile limits the set of Windchill PDMLink actions that are visible to a typical PTC FlexPLM user to reduce confusion and simplify the user interface to essential items. This profile allows users to have visibility to certain Windchill features (such as the product structure browser).
• This profile automatically directs users to the PTC FlexPLM home page. If users are not members of the Retail profile, they can specify their home page to either Windchill or PTC FlexPLM. This is controlled by a preference. If the preference is set to a certain location, users receive an error message that they do not have enough permissions for access, and they need to contact an administrator.
Users must be a member of the Retail group to have access to PTC FlexPLM.Users can be members of groups outside the Retail group, they must be a member of the Retail group or of a subgroup of the Retail group. All other users and groups, as they relate to PTC FlexPLM, should be members of the Retail group. This membership ensures that users within that group have general access to PTC FlexPLM.
• While granting access to users that are not members of the Retail group does not cause the system to fail, it does not give them access to PTC FlexPLM, and doing so makes maintaining the access control lists more complex. By adding users and groups as members of the Retail group, this would happen automatically, making maintenance simpler.
• A rule created against users or groups that are not members of the Retail profile generally would not have any impact. Any user that is not a member of the Retail group cannot access PTC FlexPLM.