Editing the Delegate (Autodesk Inventor)

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Out-of-the-box delegate

Windchill provides an out-of-the-box mechanism to pass additional information related to the CAD Document as custom system parameters.

To customize the parameters, set the server-side preference,Workgroup Manager Client > Mapping Custom System Attributes and File Properties at the site level.

• The value is a list of additional attributes from objects related to the CAD Document that are shown in the CAD tool as parameters or properties.

• The value is a comma separated list of CAD property and Windchill attribute pairs in the following format:

<name_of_CAD_property>:<relatedObjectCode>.<WindchillAttributeName>

Where:

Value	Description	Possible values
name_of_CAD_property	This is the name of the parameter or property in the CAD tool	PART_REVISION
relatedObjectCode	This is the string used to identify the related object	• docMaster • associatedPart • relatedECN • promote
WindchillAttributeName	This is the logical name or internal name of the attribute in Windchill for the related object	• soft type attributes on CAD Document Master • Part Attributes ◦ soft type attribute on the related Part of type Boolean, Date, Integer, Real, Real with Units or String ◦ lifeCycleState ◦ lifecycleTemplate.name ◦ name, ◦ number ◦ orgid ◦ view.identity ◦ partType • For related ECN ◦ number ◦ orgid ◦ resolutionDate • For promote ◦ number ◦ orgid ◦ approvers ◦ approveDates ◦ reviewers ◦ reviewDates

For soft-type attributes, values sent to the CAD tool are the display values as seen on the object’s Information page. Display values use Attribute Handling preferences and Type and Attribute Management settings but do not support complex display customizations using data utilities for rendering.

This functionality can only be used if you do not have a customized server-side delegate CustomModeledAttributesDelegate that can be used to insert parameters (see the next section below for Custom Delegate).

For the associated part:

• This functionality supports parts related to the CAD Document with Owner, Contributing Image, Image and Contributing Content.

• The selected part version is similar to the CAD Document’s information page related parts table.

• If more than one revision of the same part is related to the CAD Document, then the latest revision of each part is returned.

• More than one part can be returned if the system is configured to allow multiple build associations, with the server-side preference Operations > Auto Associate > Allow CAD Document To Build Multiple Parts set to Yes. In this case, the information for each related part is returned in a delimited format. The delimiter used is defined by the server-side preference Workgroup Manager Client > Custom System Attributes Delimiter For Multiple Related Objects.

For the related ECN:

• When the CAD Document revision participates in the Change Notice as Resulting Object, then the attributes about the ECN are sent to the CAD parameter.

• If the CAD Document revision participates in more than one Change Notice , then the delimiter used is defined by the server-side preference Workgroup Manager Client > Custom System Attributes Delimiter For Multiple Related Objects..

• The rejected ECNs are not listed.

For the Promotion request:

• When the CAD Document version participates in the Promotion request, then the attributes about the Promotion are sent to the CAD parameter.

• If the CAD Document version participates in more than one Promotion request, then the delimiter used is defined by the server-side preference Workgroup Manager Client > Custom System Attributes Delimiter For Multiple Related Objects..

• The rejected Promotion request is not listed.

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