Managing Organizations
Manage organization objects, also known as organization participants, from the
Participant Administration table. Clicking the add participants to the table icon
allows you to search for existing organization participants and add them to the
Participant Administration table. Clicking the new organization icon
allows you to create a new organization participant.
| Creating an organization participant in the Participant Administration utility does not create an organization context, it only creates the participant. Both the organization participant and its context can be created from the Organizations page (visible only to site administrators), accessed by clicking the View All link under Organizations  . Click the new organization icon at the top of the Organizations table. When creating an organization context, you can associate the context with either an existing organization (that is not already associated with a context) or you can create a new organization. |
Organization participants created using the Participant Administration utility are considered restricted organizations. This means that no access control rules are automatically added to allow users in one organization to see users and groups from other organizations. When you create an organization context, you can select a checkbox that allows users in the organization to see all users and groups. This adds the organization to the Unrestricted Organizations group, which has the access control rules set to allow users to see other users and groups.
Organization participants can be used to identify an organization as the owner of specific parts and documents. By default, Windchill solutions are not set up to allow organization ownership selection. The organization under which the parts and documents are created automatically own them. There are multiple steps involved in enabling organization ownership selection, one of which is creating the organization participants.
For more information on enabling organization ownership selection, see
Owning Organization Participants.
Managing organizations includes performing the following activities:
• Creating organization participants
• Searching for organization participants
• Editing and deleting organization participants
When deleting organization participants, you can delete them from just the Windchill database or delete them from both the database and the directory service.
• Viewing information about organization participants
• Adding profiles for organization participants
• Purging organization participants from the cache
For specific instructions on how to perform these activities, access the help available from the Participant Administration utility.
| When specifying the internet domain name of an organization, the name you enter can contain only alphanumeric characters and the hyphen (-) character. Do not enter any other types of characters in the name. |
The following section provides additional information about deleting organization participants.
