Preferences and Properties
Windchill 13.1.0.0
Description
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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Change Management
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Default Variance Effectivity
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New
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Creates the default effectivity for a variance.
• When set to Date, creates the date effectivity record for the affected objects in a variance.
• When set to None, creates a blank effectivity record for the affected objects in a variance.
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Date
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MPMLink
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Define the Order for the Process Plan Assignable Objects
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New
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This preference defines the order for displaying process plan assignable objects in the process plan tree structure. Select relevant objects for each numbered field. For example, if you select Work Center in field 1, then the Work Center object is displayed first in the process plan tree structure.
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Not set
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MPMLink
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Show Process Plan Related Information
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New
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This preference controls the display of related information for a process plan. When set to Show, the Show action appears in the process plan browser. You must select the Show action to display the related information in the process plan tree structure. When set to Show Automatically, the system automatically displays the related information in the process plan tree structure, and no selection is required. When the field is left blank, the related information is not displayed in the tree structure.
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Not set
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MPMLink
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Method for Generating Process Plans
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New
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The Method for Generating Process Plans preference defines the method for generating process plans. This preference has the following values:
• For each BOM — (Default) Generates a process plan for each BOM.
• For each routing plan — Generates a process plan for each routing plan that is associated with the generic process plan.
• For each plant — Generates a process plan for all routing plans that are associated with the same plant.
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For each BOM
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Owning Organization
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Expose Organization
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Existing
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The intent of this preference is to provide general control over the exposure of Organizations for many business objects. When enabled, it generally exposes owning organization for business objects and is the prerequisite for extending exposure to change objects or limiting exposure to the supplier management parts.
When owning organization is exposed for business objects, the attribute label continues to be controlled by the following preferences:
• Label for OrgID
• Label for Manufacturer ID
• Label for Vendor ID
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No
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Owning Organization (Change Management)
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Expose Organization for Change Management Objects
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Existing
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The intent of this preference, when enabled, is to extend the exposure of Organizations to change management objects.
This preference has a prerequisite of Expose Organization set to Yes and when this preference is also set to Yes, the organization will also be exposed for change management objects.
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No
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Owning Organization (Supplier Management)
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Expose Organization Only for Windchill Supplier Management Parts
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New
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The preference is available only when Windchill Supplier Management is installed.
The intent of this preference, when enabled, is to limit the exposure of Organizations to the supplier management parts.
This preference has a prerequisite of Expose Organization set to Yes and when this preference is also set to Yes, the organization will only be exposed for the supplier management parts.
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No
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Windchill Workgroup Manager
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offline.after.event
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New
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Set this preference in the wgmclient.ini file to control the offline workspace functionality.
When set to Yes (default), Windchill Workgroup Manager switches to the offline mode if the server connection is lost.
When set to No, instead of going offline, Windchill Workgroup Manager tries to reconnect to the server if the connection is lost.
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Yes
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Windchill Workgroup Manager
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offline.options.activated
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New
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When set to Yes (default) in the wgmclient.ini file, the Synchronize, Download, and Upload boxes are selected when connecting to the server.
When set to No, only the Synchronize box is selected when connecting to the server.
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Yes
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Windchill Workgroup Manager
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update.single.part.on.publish
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New
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When set to Yes (default) in the wgmclient.ini file, Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5 downloads and loads the part along with its dependencies.
When set to No, Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5 downloads and loads the part without its dependencies.
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Yes
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Windchill Workgroup Manager
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manage.sd_gfx.files
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New
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When set to Yes (default) in the wgmclient.ini file, the *sd.gfx files are created along with the primary content.
When set to No, the *.sd_gfx files are not created.
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Yes
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Windchill Workgroup Manager
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propagate.swx.standard.configs
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New
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When set to Default, Standard, or any custom value (One/Two/Three/Four) in the wgmclient.ini file, all configuration-specific properties in SOLIDWORKS are mapped to Windchill attributes.
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Not set
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CAD Data Management
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Skip CAD/Dynamic Document Attachments
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New
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Restricts the type of attachments copied onto the new CAD/Dynamic document. When using commonspace or workspace Save As, the preference specifies the attachments excluded from this action.
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Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration
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Enable computation of difference in BOM based on effectivity context
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New
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When set to Yes, effectivity associated to an object is published based on the applied effectivity context. When set to No, the effectivity context is not considered for publishing.
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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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The following properties (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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Windchill Configuration Management
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deprecated.com.ptc.windchill.enterprise.rollup.multilevelBOMRollupEligiblePartAttributes
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New
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When the property is defined and set, the Multi-Level BOM Roll-up action is enabled. The property value that is specified controls the attributes, using their internal names, available to the end users when performing the roll-up calculations for a bill of materials. The attributes specified in a comma-separated list must be of Integer, Real, or Real Number with Units data types defined on a part.
This property is deprecated from this release and will be terminated in a future Windchill release.
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Not set
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MPMLink
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com.ptc.windchill.associativity.classification.mapping
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New
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When the property is defined and set, the system maps or copies the classification binding attributes from the upstream to the downstream
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Not set
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Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration
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com.ptc.windchill.esi.postEventRetryCount
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New
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Defines the maximum number of times the ESI release complete event should trigger until it is consumed in the workflow (post release robot).
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20
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Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration
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com.ptc.windchill.esi.postEventRetryPeriod
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New
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Defines the time interval after which the ESIService will trigger the ESI release complete event. If not specified, the default value is 90000 milliseconds.
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90000
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Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration
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com.ptc.windchill.esi.classBasedWorkflow
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New
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Set this property to True to return to the old behavior of using the class-based synchronization robot in your custom RTM workflow for ESI.
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False
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