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Preferences and Properties
Product: Windchill
Release: 12.0.0.0
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
Options and Variants
Select Group-Dependent Ordering
New
When the value of this preference is set to Yes, options and choices, assigned to a group, in an option set can be ordered only within the group.
When the value of this preference is set to No, options and choices in an option set can be ordered independent of group assignment.
Yes
Options and Variants
Selection Status Display Format
New
Allows the administrator to specify the format of the choice selection status to display in the Selected Choices table of an Option Filter. Values are:
User selected only: Selecting this value displays only the choices that are selected by user.
Rule driven only: Selecting this value displays choices that are driven by rules.
Both: Selecting this value displays both, choices that are selected by user and choices that are driven by rules.
User selected only
Options and Variants
Validate for Required Choices
Updated
Controls whether the Required options, Requires conditional rules, and Requires Single Select conditional rules must be applied when specifying filtering criteria in the Option Filter window.
This preference does not affect the validation of Configure and Reconfigure actions as for these actions, the Required options and conditional rules are always enforced.
No
Document Management
File Download Mechanism
Updated
The option Open Office files in Office Online is added to the existing set of options in the preference. Use this option to allow users view or open Microsoft Office files in Office 365 Online.
Use basic browser functionality to download files
Digital Product Traceability
Show Traces Tab in Part Structure
New
When set to Yes, the Traces tab is visible in the Structure tab. When set to No, the default, Traces tab is hidden for part Structure tab.
No
Digital Product Traceability
Show Traceability Tab
Updated
Controls the visibility of Traceability tab in the information page of various objects. When set to Yes, the Traceability tab is visible in the information page. When set to No, the default, the Traceability tab is hidden in the information page.
No
MPMLink
Reconciliation Assistance Criteria
New
Specifies the criteria to reconcile differences between upstream parts and downstream parts.
Out of Date
The following properties (listed by functional area) have been changed in, added to, or removed from Windchill:
Functional Area
Name
Status
Description
Default Value
Packages
com.ptc.windchill.wp.delivery.export.full.queueNames
New
Specifies the queues to be assigned to process the export of full replication packages.
Packages
com.ptc.windchill.wp.delivery.export. incremental.queueNames
New
Specifies the queues to be assigned to process the export of incremental replication packages.
Change Management
wt.change.propagateName
New
Controls the propagation of the name attribute value of a change object.
true
Windchill Visualization Services
wvs.webgl.creoview.lighting
New
Controls the Creo View lighting in WebGL. The default value is true, meaning the Creo View lighting is enabled for WebGL. You can revert to the original setting of the WebGL lighting by setting the value to false.
true
Windchill Visualization Services
edrload.part.explicitpartlinkpropertylist
New
Specifies a space-separated list of WTPartUsageLink and WTPartOccurenceLink attribute names (internal) that must be added into static and dynamic part structure PVS file.
The behavior of this property depends on the property edrload.includeproperties (must be set to True).
quantity.amount quantity.unit
Windchill Visualization Services
edrload.publish.includepartlinkproperties
New
Specifies whether the WTPartUsageLink and PartUsesOccurrence attributes are to be added into the static PVS file at the time of publishing. The behavior of this property depends on the properties edrload.includeproperties (must be set to True) and edrload.part.explicitpartlinkpropertylist (must have values specified for quantity.amount or quantity.unit attributes).
false
Windchill Logging
wt.pom.logger.apilevel.enabled
New
Enables persistence layer logging for the classes configured in the wt. pom.logger.apilevel.classes property.
false
Windchill Logging
wt. pom.logger.apilevel.classes
New
Specifies the classes for which you want to generate persistence layer log messages. To take effect, the wt.pom.logger.apilevel.enabled property must be set to true.
Common User Interface / Move
wt.dataops.viewversions.containermove
New
Provides the ability to enable moving part view versions into separate containers when the value is set to True. The part master always remains in the same context as the most upstream view version.
The default value is False.
false
Common User Interface / Move
wt.containermove.owningorg.derivedFromContainer
New
Controls whether objects with an owning organization automatically match the target context owning organization when the object, more specifically this is often the object master, is moved to a new context by a user with appropriate permissions.
The default value is False, meaning the owning organization is not derived from the target context.
false
Options and Variants
ato.constraint.engine.class
New
Switches between the two constraint solvers, PTC rule engine and Drools rule engine when working with option sets and rule definitions.
To use PTC rule engine, set the value to com.ptc.windchill.option.choicecomponent.session.rules.engine.graph.DependencyGraphEngineSession. To use the Drools rule engine, set the value to com.ptc.windchill.option.choicecomponent.session.rules.engine.drools.DroolsEngineSession.
If no value is set, the default is the Drools rule engine.
Drools rule engine
MPMLink
com.ptc.windchill.associativity.reconciliation.criteria.usePreviousVersion
Updated
Determines whether the current iteration of the upstream object should be compared with the previous iteration or version of the upstream object.
The default value for this property is changed to true.
true
MPMLink
com.ptc.windchill.associativity.upstreamCustomVizSelectionObjectTypes
New
Determines the selection criteria for Custom Selection action in upstream view of BOM Transformer .
MPMLink
com.ptc.windchill.associativity.downstreamCustomVizSelectionObjectTypes
New
Determines the selection criteria for Custom Selection action in downstream view of BOM Transformer .
MPMLink
reloadVisualizationOnNCUpdate
New
Determines the reloading or updating of visualization pane in usage and occurrence modes in BOM Transformer.
false