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Workgroup Manager Client Category
The following table describes the most frequently used preferences that can be set or modified from the Workgroup Manager Client category and subcategories of the Preference Management utility. For a complete list of preferences for Windchill Workgroup Manager and Creo Elements/Direct Modeling, refer to the Preference Management utility in Windchill. Online help is available for each preference from the Set Preference window.
Preference Name
Contexts
Values
Workgroup Manager Client > Check In Content Options
• Site
• Organizations
• Products
• Projects
• Libraries
• User
• Models Only
• Viewables Only
• Models and Viewables
Workgroup Manager Client > Default Drawing Frame Location
• Site
• Organizations
• Products
• Projects
• Libraries
• User
/<path>
Workgroup Manager Client > Default Load Type
• Site
• Organizations
• Full
• Structure
• Partial
• Lightweight
Workgroup Manager Client > Define Library Used by Application
• Site
• Organizations
• Products
• Projects
• Libraries
<Windchill library>/<folder in this library>
Workgroup Manager Client > Disable Check out on the fly
• Site
• Organizations
• Products
• Projects
• Libraries
Controls the display of the Conflicts (for Check out on the fly) window upon execution of Save action and resolves the checkout conflict with one of the following options:
• Check-out — Disable the Conflicts (for Check out on the fly) window and checkout the document.
• Revise and Check out — Disable the Conflicts (for Check out on the fly) window; revise and checkout the document.
• Continue — Disable the Conflicts (for Check out on the fly) window and continue to save the document without a checkout.
* 
Documents that are not explicitly checked out are not eligible for a check in.
• No (default) — Enables the display of the Conflicts (for Check out on the fly) window.
Workgroup Manager Client > Manage Top Level Instance
• Site
• Organizations
• Modified Only
• None
• All
Workgroup Manager Client > Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > Created By Attribute
• Site
• Organizations
The default value is PTC_WM_CREATED_BY.
Identifies the name of the property that shows the name of the user that created the CAD document.
Workgroup Manager Client > Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > Created On Attribute
• Site
• Organizations
The default value is PTC_WM_CREATED_ON.
Identifies the name of the property that shows the date and time that the CAD document was created.
* 
The Date.Type.Parameter.Format preference in the wgmclient.ini file controls the date and time string.
Workgroup Manager Client > Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > Modified By Attribute
• Site
• Organizations
The default value is PTC_WM_MODIFIED_BY.
Identifies the name of the property that shows the name of the user that last modified the CAD document.
Workgroup Manager Client > Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > Modified On Attribute
• Site
• Organizations
The default value is PTC_WM_MODIFIED_ON.
Identifies the name of the property that shows the date and time that the CAD document was last modified.
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The Date.Type.Parameter.Format preference in the wgmclient.ini file controls the date and time string.
Workgroup Manager Client > Synchronize Number and File Name
• Site
• Organizations
• Yes
• No
Workgroup Manager Client > Undo Checkout Overwrite Local Content
• Site
• Organizations
• Products
• Projects
• Libraries
• User
• Yes
• No
Workgroup Manager Client > Update Overwrite Local Content
• Site
• Organizations
• Products
• Projects
• Libraries
• User
• Yes
• No
Workgroup Manager Client > Upload CAD/Dynamic Document and Attachment Filter
• Site
• Organizations
• Products
• Projects
• Libraries
• User
• CAD/Dynamic Document Type
• Attachment File Type
• Content Category
* 
• When you upgrade from an older release to Windchill 11.1 M020, a performance issue may be observed when you open a large CAD assembly saved in the previous release. This is because for Windchill 11.1 M020 onwards, the Windchill Workgroup Manager enforces to propagate additional Windchill system attributes (Created On, Created By, Modified On, Modified By) to CAD models when opening CAD documents from Windchill by default. This propagation of the Windchill system attributes increases the loading time of the files as compared to that without propagating these attributes.
• If these Windchill system attributes are not a part of your requirement, you can ignore these attributes by setting their attribute names to blank values. The Windchill Workgroup Manager will not propagate the Windchill system attributes to CAD models and performance degradation for legacy data will be avoided. The following image displays that the attributes with blank values were not propagated.
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