Data utilities are java classes that can be used for customizations that cannot be accomplished using the available configuration points.

A data utility is used to get the data and meta-data of an attribute and create the UI component which will be used to render the attribute in the UI. If the data returned by a core API is not sufficient for creating the UI component, data utilities can be used to augment this data with additional information. The additional information can be fetched by an additional query, a call to a service, or whatever else you can get at via Java code.

The OOTB implementations of data utilities provide the behavior defined for Windchill OOTB applications in accordance with Windchill UI standards.

You can configure a data utility for any attribute id.