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Preferences and Properties
Product: Windchill
Release: 11.2.1.0
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
Product Structure Browser
Enable Inline Editing Product Structure Browser
New
Controls the ability to edit part and part usage attributes displayed in the part structure pane of the Product Structure Browser.
This preference is available at the site level.
No
MPMLink
Autosuggest in Object Search
New
Allows users to enable or disable autosuggestion when searching for an object.
Yes
MPMLink
Set Count of Autosuggest Options
New
Specifies the maximum number of autosuggested options that should appear when searching for an object.
50
MPMLink
Default Effectivity Date
New
Specifies the default effectivity date when setting the filter criteria for editing plant information in the Manage Functional Information window. Set the effectivity date to today or none.
Today
MPMLink
Show Equivalent Occurrence Status of All Objects in the Structure
Updated
This preference is renamed to Show Equivalent Consumption Status of All Objects in the Structure.
When set to Yes, the equivalent usage and equivalent occurrence status appear for all objects in the structure.
No
MPMLink
Make Children of Subcontracted Parts Unavailable
New
For parts that are subcontracted in a structure, sets the availability of the children for the subcontracted parts. When set to No, all children of subcontracted parts are available. When set to Yes, no children of subcontracted parts are available. The unavailable parts appear dimmed. The default is No.
No
MPMLink
Make Children of Supplied Parts Unavailable
New
For parts that are supplied in a structure, sets the availability of the children for the supplied parts. When set to No, all children of supplied parts are available. When set to Yes, no children of supplied parts are available. The unavailable parts appear dimmed. The default is No.
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
MPMLink
<Property name=" accountabilityMap.newConfiguration.validTypes" default="type 1,type 2"/>
New
Use the property to specifically create a copy of an existing accountability map that contains parts with certain part types.
MPMLink
Property default="Attribute_name" name="SUPPLIER_INDICATING_SOFT_ATTRIBUTE" overridable="true"/>
New
Use the propertyto determine if a part is a supplier part.
Change Management
wt.change.propagateAttachmentForCNTemplate.enabled
New
Set to true to propagate file attachments from a change request to a change notice using a change notice template.
False
Project Planning
com.ptc.projectmanagement.plan.startManualPlan
New
Set to true, to execute a scheduled manual plan using the Start Execution action. When set to false, you cannot execute the scheduled manual plan using the Start Execution action. The default is false.
False
File Vaulting and Replication
wt.fv.purgeUnreferencedMORItemsOlderThan
New
Determines the age, in days, of unreferenced MasteredOnReplicaItems that are subject to cleanup when the sync operation is run. The default value is 30 days and the minimum value is 2 days.
True
File Vaulting and Replication
wt.fv.faultTolerantVaults.autoRestoreAttempts
New
Determines the number of attempts to restore the read-only cache vault automatically. Default value is 12.
File Vaulting and Replication
wt.fv.faultTolerantVaults.autoRestoreInterval
New
Determines the frequency in minutes to restore the read-only cache vault automatically. Default value is 5.
File Vaulting and Replication
wt.fv.faultTolerantVaults.queueName
New
Determines the queue where the Auto Restore Cache Vault job will run. Default value is commonScheduleQueue.
Options and Variants
com.ptc.windchill.option.variantspec.allowOptionSetVariantSpecificationCreate
New
Controls the visibility of the New Variant Specification action in Part Structure Browser.
When set to true, the New Variant Specification action in the Saved Filters action group in Part Structure Browser creates a variant specification or a managed option filter for an option set.
* 
To create a variant specification or a managed option filter, when this property is set to true, ensure that the configurable modules are enabled and the top level of the part structure is a configurable module.
This property does not alter the ability to create variant specifications for configurable modules.
False
Workflow
wt.workflow.restrictReassignToRole
New
Restricts the users to whom a task can be reassigned. When set to true, a task can be reassigned to only those users who are associated with the role or resource pool specified in the task.
false
Service Publishing
com.ptc.arbortext. windchill.publisher.processPIs.inBatch
New
Determines whether the publishing process occurs in batches. When set to false, the default, the product instances are not processed in batches.
False
Service Publishing
com.ptc.arbortext.windchill.publisher.processPIs.BatchSize
New
Determines the number of product instances processed in a batch.
Service Publishing
com.ptc.arbortext.windchill.publisher.includeOptionSetOfPIContext
New
Determines whether an option set is included in the published bundle for a product instance.
True
MPMLink
com.ptc.windchill.mpml.mapsb.DisplayUpstreamCustomJSPs
New
Specifies the JSP files to use for upstream custom tabs in MAPSB.
MPMLink
com.ptc.windchill.mpml.mapsb.DisplayDownstreamCustomJSPs
New
Specifies the JSP files to use for downstream custom tabs in MAPSB.
Change Management
wt.change.remoteChangeableObjects.enabled
New
Set to true to add all the remote changeable objects to the Affected Objects table in a change request.
False
Project Planning
<location of soft attributes.internal name of the type>_exportSoftAttributes
New
Determines the attributes that are available for export to Microsoft project.
Options and Variants
ato.negation.operator
New
Specifies the negation character to be used for indicating false choices in the Option Filter tab.
The default value is “-”.