Preferences and Properties
Product: Windchill
Release: 12.1.2.0
Benefit
Several preferences and properties have been changed in, added to, or removed from Windchill.
Additional Details
The following preferences (listed by functional area) have been changed in, added to, or removed from Windchill:
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Functional Area
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Name
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Status
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Description
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Default Value
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MPMLink
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Automatically Create Standard Control Characteristics
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New
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Controls whether to automatically create standard control characteristics. When set to Yes, the standard control characteristics are automatically created when you check in the CAD model with the annotations designated as control characteristics. The default value is No. When set to No, the default, you are required to create the standard control characteristics manually in Windchill.
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No
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MPMLink
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Automatically Create Occurrences for New Usages
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New
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This preference controls whether occurrences are automatically created with new usages. When set to Yes, the default, inserting new or existing parts in Associative Part Structure Browser or inserting new or existing resources in Manufacturing Resource Browser automatically creates occurrences.
For more information, see Creating a New Resource.
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Yes
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MPMLink
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Automatically Save Position of Entities During Process Plan Playback
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Updated
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This preference controls the behavior of the Update Position action during playback. When set to Yes, the Update Position action automatically saves the position of entities during the playback without opening the Update Position dialog box. Applies to: Resources, EPM documents, Operated-on parts, Co-produce usage parts, and Raw materials. When set to No (default), the Update Position dialog box lets you edit and save the new position.
For more information, see Updating and Saving the Position of Resources in Manufacturing Resource Browser.
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No
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Change Management
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Propagate Name Attribute
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New
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Controls the propagation of the Name attribute value when creating:
• A change management object from an upstream change management object
• A change management object from a change management object template
Set the preference to:
• Do Not Propagate Name: Does not propagate the name
• Change Management Objects Only: Propagates the name from an upstream change management object
• Change Object Templates Only: Propagates the name from a change management object template
• Change Management Objects and Change Object Templates: Propagates the name from both
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Change Management Objects and Change Object Templates
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Visualization
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• Enable BOM Transformer Browser /SAPSB to load in QuickView
• Enable CAD Structure Browser to load in QuickView
• Enable Manufacturing Resource Browser to load in QuickView
• Enable Part Structure Browser to load in QuickView
• Enable Process Plan Browser to load in QuickView
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New
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Enable loading of QuickView in respective browsers for efficient viewing of large structures. This loads QuickView thumbnails in Visualization if they are available. It enables better control to expand structures and get more details.
For more information see Setting Preferences under Visualizing Large Structures with QuickView.
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No
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The following properties (listed by the functional area) have been changed in, added to, or removed from Windchill:
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We are in the process of converting existing properties into new preferences. It is recommended that you set the values correctly for newly introduced preferences. As part of the setup, you should review the settings of the new configuration and reevaluate the default values of preferences.
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Functional Area
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Name
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Status
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Description
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Default Value
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MPMLink
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com.ptc.windchill.associativity.doSilentUpdateEquivalent
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New
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Determines whether to update the equivalent links silently or by resolving the discrepancies interactively using the standard reconciliation framework. This property is present in the associativity.properties.xconf file located at WT_HOME/ codebase/com/ptc/core/foundation/associativity.
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false
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MPMLink
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com.ptc.windchill.associativity.copyOverExpression
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New
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Specifies the criteria for copy over framework for propagating assigned expressions during the structure transformation actions.
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ITEM,USAGE
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MPMLink
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com.ptc.windchill.mpml.coproduce.manageIndependentCoproduce
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New
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Determines whether the co-produce usages are added automatically or manually to the co-produce object structure. If set to true, the Made From part usages of the primary and secondary parts must be added manually to the structure after creating the co-produce object. If set to false, the Made From part usages are automatically added during the co-produce object creation.
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true
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MPMLink
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com.ptc.windchill.associativity.viz.ManageQuickViewOnStructureChange
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New
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Determines whether the existing QuickView thumbnails for parent assemblies of affected objects should be removed from the downstream structure when propagating changes from upstream to downstream using structure transformation actions. By default, the thumbnails are removed. To retain them, set the property to NONE.
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DELETE_QUICK_VIEW
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MPMLink
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com.ptc.windchill.associativity.viz.carryForwardRepresentationForAssembly
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New
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Determines whether the existing representations and QuickView thumbnails for all subassemblies are carried forward to the downstream structure when creating a new downstream structure using the structure transformation actions, such as New Downstream Branch and New Downstream Part. By default, the representations and thumbnails are carried forward. If set to false, they are not carried forward.
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true
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MPMLink
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com.ptc.windchill.associativity.wvs.scheduler.supportedCriteriaTypes
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New
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Specifies the criteria to be considered by publish jobs when generating representations and QuickView thumbnails. As per the criteria, these are generated only for assembly parts with upstream equivalent links, assembly parts allocated to an operation, and work centers and tooling. You can configure the property to generate representations and QuickView thumbnails for other objects as well.
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EQUIVALENCE
MPMOPERATION
MPMRESOURCE
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MPMLink
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com.ptc.windchill.associativity.wvs.validateQuickViewPublishRules
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New
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Determines whether the publish job should consider or ignore publish rules when generating QuickView thumbnails. Set the property to false to ignore publish rules.
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true
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MPMLink
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com.ptc.windchill.associativity.wvs.representationName
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New
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Specifies the default name for representations created using publish jobs.
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MPMBatch
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MPMLink
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com.ptc.windchill.associativity.wvs.representationDescription
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New
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Specifies the default description for representations created using publish jobs.
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MPMBatch Scheduler
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Business Administrative Change
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windchill wt.scm.client.SCMCMD export -s --objectType
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Updated
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BAC supports exporting and importing of system and custom Shared Table Views from test system to the pre-production and production Windchill systems.
New object type that can be used to export shared and system table views is added. The object type is TableView.
For more information about the exportObjectType, see Export Changes Command
For more information about the Spec file, see Creating a Spec XML File.
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Change Management
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wt.change.propagateName
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Removed
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The property is removed and new preference Propagate Name Attribute is added. for more information, see the preferences table of this topic.
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Change Management Objects and Change Object Templates
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Visualization services
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thumbnail.quickview.cadagenttimeout
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New
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This property sets the timeout in seconds for QuickView thumbnail generation when using the cadagent and a remote thumbnail worker.
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3600
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Visualization services
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thumbnail.quickview.filelimit
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New
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The property is used to add the limit on the number of OL files that the QuickView thumbnail generator will read. The value set to ‘-1’ indicates no limit on the number of files.
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800
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Visualization services
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thumbnail.quickview.fidelity
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New
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The schedulers use the set fidelity as preferred fidelity to generate the QuickView Thumbnail. If this property is not specified with valid fidelity, the scheduler does not generate QuickView Thumbnail for MultiFidelityDerivedImage objects.
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