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Preferences and Properties
Product: Windchill
Release: 12.0.1.0
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
Windchill Visualization Services
Affected objects for change management
Updated
Specifies which related parts to collect for interferences during change management. Whether this is an EPMDocument or WTPart is determined by the interferences association, controlled by the Object Types to associate Interference Detections to preference. In all cases, the Interference will be associated with the change and any collected parts as supporting information.
• Interfering Parts: Associates both parts directly involved in the interference. The interference will be an associated annotation to both parts.
• Common Parent: Associates the common parent part of the interference.
• None: Associates no parts related to the interference. It will not show the associated interferences and affected objects. You can edit the change object and add the associated interferences that you want.
Interfering Parts
MPMLink
Views with Specific Plant Data
Updated
Defines the plant data object types for different views. You can specify the value in two formats:
ViewName1:Type1 Plant Data,ViewName2:Type2 Plant Data
Type1 Plant Data:ViewName1,ViewName2;Type2 Plant Data:ViewName3,ViewName4
* 
You can use either of the formats. You cannot combine the formats when defining the preference.
MPMLink
Reconciliation Assistance Criteria
Updated
Specifies the criteria to reconcile differences between upstream parts and downstream parts.
This preference is updated to include Flexible Representation as a criterion. It helps detect discrepancies in flexible assembly feature and image association of parts.
Out of Date
Change Management
Redline Version Prefix
New
Specifies the text to be applied as the prefix for the redline version label. PTC recommends that you set the preference as Chg- for the redline. When the redline is created for a part, it shows this prefix along with the released revision the redline was created from.
Change Management
Action control rules for the change management process: Add Resulting Objects in Change Process
New
Specifies the action control rules for the change management process.
Enables the addition of resulting objects by search, paste, or collect within a change context when the preference is set to one of the following:
• Disable—No restrictions for using the action within a change context.
• Any State in Change Context—Use in any state of a change task within a change context.
• Implementation State in Change Context—Use in the implementation states of a change task within a change context.
Disable
Change Management
Action control rules for the change management process: One-Off Version in Change Process
New
Specifies the action control rules for the change management process.
Enables the New One-Off Version action within a change context when the preference is set to one of the following:
• Disable—No restrictions for using the action within or outside a change context.
• Any State in Change Context—Use in any state of a change task within a change context. The action cannot be used outside a change context.
• Implementation State in Change Context—Use in the implementation states of a change task within a change context. The action cannot be used outside a change context.
Disable
Change Management
Action control rules for the change management process: Revise in Change Process
New
Specifies the action control rules for the change management process.
Enables the Revise action within a change context when the preference is set to one of the following:
• Disable—No restrictions for using the action within or outside a change context.
• Any State in Change Context—Use in any state of a change task within a change context. The action cannot be used outside a change context.
• Implementation State in Change Context—Use in the implementation states of a change task within a change context. The action cannot be used outside a change context.
Disable
Change Management
Action control rules for the change management process: Save As in Change Process
New
Specifies the action control rules for the change management process.
Enables the Save As action within a change context when the preference is set to one of the following:
• Any State in Change Context—Use in any state of change task within a change context.
• Implementation State in Change Context—Use in the implementation states of change task within a change context.
Any State in Change Context
Change Management
Action control rules for the change management process: Supersede in Change Process
New
Specifies the action control rules for the change management process.
Enables the Supersede action within a change context when the preference is set to one of the following:
• Disable—No restrictions for using the action within or outside a change context.
• Any State in Change Context—Use in any state of a change task within a change context. The action cannot be used outside a change context.
• Implementation State in Change Context—Use in the implementation states of a change task within a change context. The action cannot be used outside a change context.
Disable
The following properties (listed by functional area) have been changed in, added to, or removed from Windchill:
Functional Area
Name
Status
Description
Default Value
File Vaulting and Replication
wt.content.blobSizeThreshold
New
Specifies the size limit of database blob storage (in MB) that is used for storing content files.
2048 MB
File Vaulting and Replication
wt.fv.useVaultsForAllContent
Updated
Sets the system to send all content to the master vaults.
True
File Vaulting and Replication
wt.content.disableSecureUpload
New
Disables the secure upload of content files when it is set to true. Security label validation is not performed on primary and secondary attachments, and IBA-based security label OIRs are not followed.
In default settings, a secure upload of content files is enabled.
False
Windchill Visualization Services
and
MPMLink
edrload.dynamicstructure.representationasfeaturesource
New
This property, applicable to dynamic part structure (eBOM and mBOM), is used to switch the business logic between the following two approaches:
• Read Representations to apply feature on the impacted nodes within a structure.
• Read database tables to apply feature on the impacted nodes within a structure. This approach is required to support BOM transformation use cases.
These approaches are used to support Assembly and Flexible Positioning features in dynamic part structure.
The default value is true, meaning the approach to read representations to find feature-impacted nodes within a structure is used by default to support the features.
When this property is set to false, the approach to read the database data will be used to support these features.
True
Service Translation
com.ptc.tml.OnlyRequiredDependents
New
Controls inclusion or exclusion of reference documents in a translation package.
When set to true, the translation package excludes the documents that are associated by reference links and includes documents with member links only.
False
Change Management
wt.change.enableChangeIntent
New
Controls the use of the redline feature.
When set to true the creation of the redline is enabled and the redline feature is available. When set to false, the creation of the redline is disabled and the redline feature is unavailable.
False
Change Management
wt.mappingRules.enableOrganizationRules
New
Enables the mapping rules. The Mapping Rules table is available at the organization context when the wt.mappingRules.enableOrganizationRules property is set to true.
False
Change Management
wt.change2.associationRuleEvaluateRequiredRole.enabled
New
The wt.change2.associationRuleEvaluateRequiredRole.enabled property controls the visibility of the Role A or Role B type change object during the creation of a change object. Based on the required role under the Change Association Rules, creating the change object violates the required role constraint of association rule.
If set to true, either the Role A type or Role B type change object that you want to create is not visible based on the required role under the Change Association Rules.
If set to false, either the Role A type or Role B type change object that you want to create is visible based on the required role under the Change Association Rules. However, at the final step of creating the change object, you will receive an error message stating that creating the change object violates the required role constraint of the association rule.
False
MPMLink
accountabilityMap.dualContextUI.showLatestRevisionOnly
New
Controls the display of revisions of smart collections associated with the selected parts.
When set to true, the default, the latest revision of the smart collection is displayed. When set to false, all the revisions of the smart collection are displayed.
true
MPMLink
com.ptc.windchill.associativity.accountabilityMap.validDisplayTypes
New
Controls the types of smart collections displayed in the Smart Collection column.
wt.associativity.accountability.AccountabilityMap
MPMLink
massUpdate.Collection.9010
New
Enables replacing raw-material or semi-finished parts with another part using the Mass Update Manufacturing Objects action.
WCTYPE|wt.mpm.rawmaterial.RawMaterialLink,makes,madeFrom