Remote objects are requirements that are managed outside a Windchill system. In Windchill, they behave as local objects and follow rules of local change processes. Business rules are not supported for remote changeable objects.

The Requirement External Resource type, Architecture External Resource, and their subtypes are the remote changeable objects that are available out of the box. For more information on the subtypes, see the topic System Compatibility and Requirements.

The remote changeable objects in Windchill are controlled by the wt.change.remoteChangeableObjects.enabled property located in the wt.properties file. The default is false. When set to true, all remote changeable objects can be added to Affected Objects table in a change request, problem report or variance. The Name, Number, Identity and State columns in the Affected Objects table support remote changeable objects in addition to local objects. You can customize the view of this table to display remote objects. Change requests that exist in a product or library context can reference remote objects as an affected object. Problem reports or variances that exist in a product, library or project context can reference remote objects as an affected object.

In a package, remote affected objects are displayed in the Preview Collection table only. The remote objects in a package cannot be imported or exported.

For more information on how to configure changeable objects in an external system OSLC server, see Configuring the Digital Product Traceability (DPT) Extension in ThingWorx.