Using a File Synchronization-capable Worker with Windchill Workgroup Manager
These instructions apply if you are using the CATIA V5 file synchronization-capable worker. This configuration uses the Windchill Workgroup Manager to synchronize Windchill attributes with the attribute values in the CAD files prior to publishing Creo View viewables.
The following is an example of the configuration changes needed to tell Windchill Visualization Services to use file synchronization for publishing data. This general concept applies to all file synchronization-capable workers.
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Only the Creo View adapters for Creo Parametric and CATIA V5 support multiple aliased workers (using the dAPI -DA argument) that are also configured for file synchronization on the same host machine.
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Perform the following steps to enable the feature for the other file synchronization-capable workers. Note the differences in the command string for each of the file synchronization-capable workers:
1. Append the useworkerdownload variable to the publish.cadconvert.<worker_name> variable in the wvs.properties file using the xconfmanager utility. This tells the publisher to use the worker for the file download (useworkerdownload) and that the username and password to give the worker can be found in the auth.properties file in the Windchill directory.
From a windchill shell, execute the following commands:
a. To display the current value of the publish.cadconvert<worker_name> variable:
xconfmanager -d publish.cadconvert.<worker_name>
b. Append the useworkerdownload variable definition to the publish.cadconvert<worker_name> variable:
useworkerdownload=$(wt.home)$(wvs.dir.sep)auth.properties
Use a comma (,) separator when appending the new value.
For CATIA V5:
xconfmanager -s
publish.cadconvert.CATIAV5=com.ptc.wvs.server.publish.CadConvert
CATIAV5,useworkerdownload=$(wt.home)$(wvs.dir.sep)auth.properties
-t <Windchill>\codebase\wvs.properties -p
where <Windchill> is the location where Windchill is installed.
2. The publish.cadconvert.<worker_name> variable edited in the previous step references the auth.properties file. At this time, the file does not exist and must be created using the following steps:
a. In the above examples, WVS looks for the auth.properties file in the Windchill directory, but, if desired, you can define a new location for this file. For security reasons, the file should not be located in the codebase directory.
b. Create the auth.properties file using a text editor of your choice.
c. Add an authentication variable that includes a user name and password value. This is the only entry in this file.
auth=<username>:<password>
Replace <username> and <password> with valid values. The specified user name must have read access to the Windchill objects to be published through Windchill Visualization Services, and it must have the authorization to download the content from Windchill.
d. Save your changes and close the auth.properties file.
3. Restart the Windchill server.
