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Preferences and Properties
Product: Windchill
Release: 12.0.2.0
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
MPMLink
Track “Made From” History Through Change Notice
New
Tracks the usage history of Made From parts through a change notice. When set to Yes, you must specify a valid change notice or change task number when adding, updating, replacing, or removing a Made From part from the associated finished part.
No
MPMLink
Save Position of Resources and Operated-on Parts During Process Plan Playback Without Launching the Update Position Dialog Box
New
Saves the new position of the resources and operated-on parts during the process plan playback when the Update Position action is performed. When set to No, the Update Position dialog box opens, where you can further edit the position and save it. When set to Yes, the dialog box does not appear.
No
Change Management
Default Pending Effectivity
New
When the preference is set to Date, creates the default date pending effectivity for the resulting objects. When the preference is set to None, does not create any default pending effectivity for the resulting objects.
Date
Windchill Visualization Services
Occurrence attribute name for determining module variant priority in positioning architecture
New
The Part Uses Occurrence attribute is used to determine the priority of module variant to be used when solving dynamic position.
Specifies the internal name for the Part Uses Occurrence attribute of type “Integer”. When an interface in the product architecture returns multiple parents (module variants), the parent's occurrence link having the least integer value in this attribute will be used to solve the resulting child location.
This preference is available at the product, organization, site, project, and library levels.
* 
This preference is applicable only to configurable products that are being positioned in the positioning architecture.
Digital Product Traceability
Show Traces Tab in Document Structure
New
When set to Yes, the Traces tab is visible in the document Structure tab. When set to No, the default, Traces tab is hidden for the document Structure tab.
No
Service Information Manager Translation
Supported Vendors
Updated
Provides the ability to specify the support vendors and their corresponding export folders. To specify a Windchill product, project, or library as an export folder, specify the value in the following form:
Vendor name|context_type|context_name
VendorA|d:\translation\tobetranslated\a~VendorB|d:\translation\tobetranslated\b
The following properties (listed by functional area) have been changed in, added to, or removed from Windchill:
Functional Area
Name
Status
Description
Default Value
Options and Variants
ato.constraint.engine.class
Updated
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 PTC rule engine.
PTC rule engine
Options and Variants
com.ptc.windchill.rd.labelBasedImportHandling.trackedSenders
New
Specifies the version mapping to be used when importing a received delivery.
This property is not available by default. When it is not configured, all imported Windchill packages will implicitly map version information from the source system to its equivalent using the series definition configured in the target system.
When the value is set to “*” or includes one or more system identifiers (GUID) in a comma-separated list, implicit mapping is not used. The version information from the source system is used for mapping.
The wildcard character (*) implies all source systems.
Security Labels
wt.access.UpdateSecurityLabelsReport.file
New
Set this property to specify the name and location of the output file when the UpdateSecurityLabels command line utility is executed. The output file is a tab-separated value (TSV) file. Append the file name with the Java virtual machine identifier (%jid), or thread identifier (%tid), or the time in milliseconds (%time), or all three values, to ensure that each output file has a unique file name.
$(wt.logs.dir)$(dir.sep)CLT_Report-%time-%jid-%tid.tsv
Security Labels
wt.access.UpdateSecurityLabelsReport.maximumFileSize
New
Set this property to verify the maximum file size (in bytes) of the output file. Specify the property value in a string format, for example, 10MB, 15KB, 1GB.
10MB
Security Labels
wt.access.UpdateSecurityLabelsReport.maxNoOfFiles
New
Set this property to specify the maximum number of output files to retain during rollover. When the number of the generated output file reaches the specified limit, a new output file is generated with a suffix ‘_x’ in the filename, where ‘x’ is the file number.
10
(number of output files)
Packages
com.ptc.windchill.wp.faulttolerance.isenabled
New
Specifies whether fault tolerance should be enabled for a delivery of a replication package. The zipping process of a fault-tolerant delivery does not fail even if the package contains faulty objects and links.
However, the fault tolerance settings provided in the Zip Package for Delivery dialog box or the Windchill Replication Package ZIP Delivery command line utility, takes precedence over the fault tolerance settings provided in the property.
false