Basic Administration

This category contains an overview of Windchill administration concepts and activities. Also included are the day-to-day management of the out-of-the-box Windchill solutions, and the administration of contexts, data, users, and collaboration.

Did You Know?

• Guidelines are provided for regular system monitoring and maintenance tasks. For more information, see Best Practices for Monitoring and Maintenance.

• The Workflow Process Administration utility allows you to review a running workflow process, including details about its progress through the workflow and activity status. Limited actions are also available to control the process flow. By default only site and organization administrators can access the utility, but it can be made available to all users with the Workflow > Workflow Process Manager Link Display preference. For more information, see Workflow Process Manager.

• You can manage user licenses by adding users to a group in Windchill with access control rules already in place. For more information, see Windchill License Groups.

• The Windchill Help Center has the following capabilities:

◦ Click print

to print the current topic.

◦ Click feedback

to send an email to PTC with comments about the current topic.

◦ Show the contents of the help center based on user role, product, or Windchill optional module by Filtering Using Profiles.