You can use the Policy Administration utility to establish access control, indexing, and notification policies for specific Windchill domains. Similarly, you can establish a file vaulting policy that identifies the vault and folder to which content files are to be uploaded, based on the domain location and life cycle state of the object with which they are associated.

Windchill domains can be created in a hierarchical fashion, with some domains as children of other domains. It is important to note that a domain does not inherit the vaulting rules of its parent domain. Vaulting rules must be explicitly defined at each level of a domain hierarchy.

You should be aware that vaulting rules created on the life cycle state of ALL do not apply to new life cycle states that are created after the rule creation time. If life cycle states are created after vaulting rules have been created on life cycle state ALL, those rules do not take into account any objects that are in these new life cycle states. As a result, the objects with these new life cycle states will not be vaulted but instead be stored in the database (as BLOBs).

To account for the new life cycle states for vaulting, the rules on life cycle state ALL must be updated from the Vault Configuration window by selecting File > Update Policy Items.

For information about accessing the Vault Configuration window, see Vault Configuration Page.