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Preferences and Properties
Product: Windchill
Release: 11.1 F000
Benefit
Several preferences and properties have been changed in, added to, or removed from Windchill.
Additional Details
The following preferences (listed by functional area) have been changed in, added to, or removed from Windchill:
Functional Area
Name
Status
Description
Default Value
Service Structures
Collect Related Service Objects
New
Controls the default behavior for the Collect Related Service Objects action.
None
Options and Variants
Advanced Logic
New
Controls the visibility of advance logic feature for a configurable part in the Part Structure Browser
No
Product Family
Default Type For Insert New Under Product Family
New
Allows you to specify a default type or to select a type when inserting a child below a Product Family.
None
Product Family
Default Type For Insert New Under Product Model Group
New
Allows you to specify a default type or to select a type when inserting a child below a Product Model Group.
None
Product Family
Product Family Create Default Type
New
Allows you to specify a default Product Family type or to select a type when product families are created.
None
Product Family
Default attributes layout (Matrix Editor)
New
Allows you to specify attributes layout in Matrix Editor cell.
None
Product Family
Default column width (Matrix Editor)
New
Allows you to specify the default Variant Specifications columns width in pixels.
None
Product Family
Configurable Structure Baseline Configuration Specification
New
Allows you to specify the configuration specification used to capture a configurable structure baseline.
None
Product Family
Reset variant baseline member link attribute values during a paste operation
New
Allows the user to provide a comma-separated list of variant baseline member link attribute names whose values must be reset to their default values during a paste operation. Value of an attribute is populated from the copied variant baseline member link if the relevant attribute is not included in this preference.
None
Product Family
Variant Specification Highest Maturity Life Cycle State
New
Allows you to specify the highest maturity life cycle state for managed variant specifications.
None
Product Family
Configuration Specification Baseline Configurable Structure
New
Allows you to define the configuration specification that determines the configurable module versions added to configurable structure baseline for managed variant specifications.
Released
Product Family
Automatically Show Replacement Parts in Matrix Editor
New
If set to Yes, the system automatically displays the related substitute and alternate parts for the parts in the tree structure of the Matrix Editor.
No
Product Family
Display collected objects
New
Allows you to specify the way to display collected objects in the table:
As a List
As a Structure
As a Structure with Associated Objects
As a List
Product Family
Include dependent Parts
New
Allows you to specify whether all or none of the dependent parts for the collected parts are by default added to the collection.
All
Product Family
Include Replacements
New
Allows you to specify the replacements that will be by default added to the collection:
All
Initially Selected Only
None
None
Change Management
Optional Review Allowed
Obsolete
This preference is now replaced by the new Review Option property in the Type and Attribute Management utility.
No
MPMLink
Incremental Loading in Visualization Tab
New
Allows you to control the availability of the Incremental Loading feature in MPMLink
No
MPMLink
Display All Equivalence Links
New
Allows you to specify the display of equivalence links
No
The following properties (listed by functional area) have been changed in, added to, or removed from Windchill:
Functional Area
Name
Status
Description
Default Value
Service Structure
describingDocumentFilterEnabled
referenceDocumentFilterEnabled
New
Configure these properties to enable or disable the following Service Information Manager specific filters:
Describing Document filter
Reference Document filter
Valid value is True or False.
None
Service Structure
collectAssociatedPartsRelatedDocs
New
Configure to enable or disable the display of documents related to parts that are directly associated with a service structure.
Valid value is True or False.
None
Service Translation
com.ptc.tml.applyFilterForTranslations
New
Configure to enable or disable filters to translation documents.
Valid value is True or False.
True
Reporting/Query Builder
com.ptc.windchill.enterprise.queryBuilder.showjoinsinuse
New
By default this property is set to True which displays the Show Joins in Use checkbox on Add Table and Join pop-up window. If the property is defined and set to False, the Show Joins in Use check box is not displayed on Add Table and Join pop-up window. This property needs to be updated in wt.properties file.
True
Options and Variants
ato.optionset.merge.delegate
New
You can enable the merge feature using one of the following methods:
Add the given property in the site.xconf file:
<Property name="ato.optionset.merge.delegate" targetFile="codebase/wt.properties" value="com.ptc.windchill.option.service.
DefaultOptionSetMergeDelegate"/>
Add the given property in the xconfmanager utility to update the site.xconf file (Recommended method):
xconfmanager –s ato.optionset.merge.delegate=com.ptc.windchill.option.service.DefaultOptionSetMergeDelegate -t "codebase/wt.properties"
Default value does not apply
System Administration and Migration
wt.org.EnforceOrglevelUniquness
New
Before upgrade, add this property to wt.properties file. The uniqueness level of an object is determined by value configured in the property. If the property is set toTrue, then the uniqueness of object is set at organization level
Valid value is True or False.
If the property does not exist during upgrade or migration, by default the uniqueness is set at organization level in the upgraded Windchill system.
None
Business Administration / Participation Administration
wt.federation.org.signatureFileSize
New
This property allows you to set greater value for signature file size.
The default value of file size is 100KB.
None