Add Custom Attributes to Microsoft Office
You can map Windchill attributes to Microsoft Office properties. For more information, see Mapping Windchill Attributes to Microsoft Office File Properties.
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The custom properties limit in Microsoft Office documents is 255 chars. This limit can be enforced by a string length constraint in the Type and Attribute Management utility.
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To add additional attributes to DTI, perform the following actions:
1. Stop the method server.
2. Create a backup copy of msoimap.xml. This file is located under the following directory:
<Windchill>\codebase\com\ptc\windchill\enterprise\nativeapp\msoi\server\msoimap.xml
3. Customize or add attributes to msoimap.xml using the following syntax:
<attribute>
<ms_name>Name_To_Display_In_Microsoft_Office</ms_name>
<wt_name>Windchill_Attribute_Introspection_Name</wt_name>
</attribute>
<ms_name>Name_To_Display_In_Microsoft_Office</ms_name>
<wt_name>Windchill_Attribute_Introspection_Name</wt_name>
</attribute>
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To find the introspection name (the <wt_name> value), open a Windchill shell and execute the InfoReport command for a specific object type. For example:
InfoReport wt.doc.WTDocument
Results are located in the following file:
<Windchill>\temp\doc.WTDocument.out
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4. Start the method server.
To verify your changes, open a Microsoft Office application and select > > .
In the following example, the Created By, Modified By, and Created On attributes are added to the Microsoft Office custom properties:
<type key="wt.doc.WTDocument">
<attribute>
<ms_name>Created By</ms_name>
<wt_name>creator.name</wt_name>
<display>true</display>
<attrFormat>string</attrFormat>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<ms_name>Modified By</ms_name>
<wt_name>modifier.name</wt_name>
<display>true</display>
<attrFormat>string</attrFormat>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<ms_name>Created On</ms_name>
<wt_name>thePersistInfo.createStamp</wt_name>
<display>true</display>
<attrFormat>string</attrFormat>
</attribute>
</type>
<attribute>
<ms_name>Created By</ms_name>
<wt_name>creator.name</wt_name>
<display>true</display>
<attrFormat>string</attrFormat>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<ms_name>Modified By</ms_name>
<wt_name>modifier.name</wt_name>
<display>true</display>
<attrFormat>string</attrFormat>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<ms_name>Created On</ms_name>
<wt_name>thePersistInfo.createStamp</wt_name>
<display>true</display>
<attrFormat>string</attrFormat>
</attribute>
</type>