- •About This Guide
- •Getting Started with Windchill Administration
- •Regarding Arbortext Content Manager
- •Regarding Pro/INTRALINK
- •Regarding PTC Windchill PDM Essentials
- •Overview
- •Regarding Global Product Development Package I
- •Logging On as the Administrator
- •Establishing Administrators
- •Organization Administrators
- •Windchill PDMLink Administrators
- •Creating a Product or Library
- •Windchill ProjectLink Administrators
- •Creating a Project or Program
- •Creating Users to Select as Administrators
- •Establishing End Users
- •Using an Enterprise Directory Service
- •Using the Participant Administration Utility
- •The Next Steps
- •Administration Overview
- •Your Installed Windchill Architecture
- •Your Installed Windchill Environment
- •Managing Your System
- •Managing User Access to Data
- •Product and Library Hierarchy
- •Program and Project Hierarchy
- •Hierarchy for Integral Windchill Solutions
- •Managing Access to Data through Access Control Rules
- •Shared Teams
- •Product, Library, Project, and Program Contexts
- •Contexts using Share Teams
- •Contexts with Private Access
- •Products and Libraries without Private Access
- •Projects and Programs without Private Access
- •Setting Up User Access to Data
- •Managing Users
- •Managing Data
- •Data Types
- •Subtypes
- •Visualization Data
- •CAD Data
- •Dynamic Document Data
- •Document Data
- •Part Data
- •Auditing
- •Managing Windchill Processes
- •Planning Object State Change Policies
- •Managing User Collaboration
- •Additional Administrative Groups
- •Post-Installation Activities
- •Overview
- •Context Administrative Items
- •Context Configuration
- •Editing the Context Configuration
- •Context Structure
- •Installed Site Context Structure
- •Editing Context Structure
- •Context Participation
- •Installed Site Context Participation
- •Roles
- •Groups
- •Editing Context Participation
- •Context Policies
- •Installed Site Context Policies
- •Access Control Rules for / (Root) Domain
- •Access Control Rules for /User Domain
- •Access Control Rule for /User/Unaffiliated Domain
- •Access Control Rules for /Default Domain
- •Access Control Rules for /System Domain
- •Indexing Rule for / (Root) Domain
- •Updating Context Policies
- •Context Data Types and Attributes
- •Installed Site Context Data Types and Attributes
- •Editing Context Data Types and Attributes
- •Templates
- •Installed Site Templates
- •Organization Context Templates
- •Workflow Templates
- •Life Cycle Templates
- •Team Templates
- •Document Templates
- •Project Templates
- •Program Templates
- •Product Templates
- •Library Templates
- •Report Templates
- •Task Form Templates
- •Editing Templates
- •Removing, Hiding, or Disabling Templates
- •Managing Document Template Preferences
- •Object Initialization Rules
- •Installed Site Object Initialization Rules
- •Adding and Changing Object Initialization Rules
- •Context Preferences
- •Creating the Contexts from which Users Work
- •Using Out-of-the-box Context Templates
- •Administering Domains and Policies
- •Context and Domain Hierarchy Overview
- •Domains in the Site Context
- •Creating Domains
- •Defining Domain-based Policies
- •Using the Policy Administration Utility
- •Specifying Policy Rules in a Context Template
- •Assigning Domains to Folders in Solutions with Products and Libraries
- •Organization Domain Algorithm
- •Using Dynamic Roles
- •Using Dynamic Roles in a New Organization
- •Using Dynamic Roles in an Existing Organization
- •Out-of-the-box Numbering Schemes
- •Changing Numbering Schemes
- •Understanding the Use of Versioning Schemes
- •Master
- •Version
- •Revision
- •Iteration
- •Initial Versioning Rules
- •Preferences for Revision Labels
- •Changing Versioning Schemes
- •Administering Preferences
- •Best Practices for Monitoring and Maintenance
- •Understanding the Site
- •Site Administration Overview
- •Typical Duties of Site Administrators
- •Creating and Managing Organizations
- •Adding and Editing Members
- •Changing Default Configuration Options
- •Managing Site-level Types and Type-specific Attributes
- •Managing Site-level Templates
- •Managing Site-level Object Initialization Rules
- •Managing Workflow Security
- •Auditing System Information
- •Creating and Managing Profiles
- •Configuring External Vaults or Replication Sites to Optimize Performance
- •Configuring and Managing CAD Publishing Utilities
- •Manage Package Configurations
- •Creating, Updating, and Managing Reports
- •Managing Calendar Settings
- •Monitoring Enterprise Systems Transactions Log
- •Purge, Archive, and Restore Jobs
- •Managing Searches
- •Creating and Managing Access Control Policy Rules
- •Viewing and Managing Access Control Rules for Objects
- •Creating Public Information Page Tabs
- •Managing Arbortext Editor Installation Bundles
- •Managing Overall System Configuration
- •Making Program Contexts Visible
- •Administering the Windchill Mobile App
- •Out-of-the-Box Site Configuration
- •Site Administration Best Practices
- •For All Windchill Solutions
- •Managing User Licenses
- •Establishing Site Administrators
- •Enabling Display of Quantity, Unit, and Reference Designator Attributes on Substitute Parts
- •Displaying Alias Attribute Information for a Workflow Primary Business Object on the My Tasks Table
- •For Windchill Solutions with Products and Libraries
- •Setting Object Initialization Rules
- •Setting Up Enhanced Life Cycle Templates
- •Overriding and Reassigning Life Cycle and Team Templates
- •Enabling Set Revision While Creating a New Object
- •Understanding Organizations
- •Organization Administration Overview
- •Managing Organization Members, Groups, Roles, and Shared Teams
- •Managing Organization-level Types and Attributes
- •Managing Organization Templates
- •Auditing Activities Within the Organization
- •Creating and Managing Access Control Policy Rules
- •Viewing and Managing Access Control for Objects
- •Creating and Managing Profiles
- •Configuring Numbering and Versioning Schemes
- •Monitoring and Managing Viewable Publishing
- •Viewing Reports
- •Importing and Exporting Information
- •Purging, Archiving, and Restoring Jobs
- •Managing Preferences
- •Undoing a User Checkout
- •Creating Public Information Page Tabs
- •Administering the Windchill Mobile App
- •Out-of-the-box Organization Templates
- •Context Structure
- •Context Participation
- •Context Access Control Policies
- •Access Control Rules
- •Default Domain Rules
- •System Domain Rules
- •Private Domain Rules
- •Organization-specific User Domain Rules
- •/Default/PDM Domain Rules for General (PDM) Template
- •Default/PDM Domain Rules
- •Default/Project Domain Rules
- •Context Data
- •Creating an Organization Context
- •Owning Organization Participants
- •Setting Up Domains for Use with Owning Organization Participants
- •Using the Organization Utilities Page
- •Changing an Established Internet Domain
- •Best Practices
- •For All Windchill Solutions
- •Email Addresses
- •Displaying Alias Attribute Information for a Workflow Primary Business Object on the My Tasks Table
- •For Windchill Solutions with Products and Libraries
- •Setting Object Initialization Rules
- •Setting Up Enhanced Life Cycle Templates
- •For Windchill Solutions with Projects and Programs
- •Allowing All Organization Members Read Access to Project or Program Content
- •Overview
- •Managing Team Members and Roles
- •Establishing Roles
- •Controlling the Visibility of Actions
- •Overriding Profiles
- •Moving Objects
- •Additional Product and Library Team Information
- •Managing Folders
- •Managing Templates
- •Managing Object Initialization Rules
- •Viewing and Managing Access Policies
- •Configuring Numbering and Versioning Schemes
- •Managing the Life Cycle of Parts, Documents, CAD Documents, and Dynamic Documents
- •Managing Viewable Publishing
- •Managing Preferences
- •Undoing a User Checkout
- •Importing and Exporting Information
- •Configuring External Vaults or Replication Sites to Optimize Performance
- •Creating a Product
- •Creating a Library
- •Administering Teams
- •Product Design Template
- •Out-of-the-box Subfolder for wt.maturity.PromotionNotice Objects
- •Out-of-the-box Context Participation
- •Out-of-the-box Context Access Control Policies
- •Team Roles and Groups
- •Rules for the GUEST Group
- •Default Domain Rules for the GUEST Group
- •System Domain Rules for the GUEST Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for the MARKETING Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for the PROCUREMENT ENGINEER Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for the QUALITY ENGINEER Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for the DESIGNER Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for the MANUFACTURING ENGINEER Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for the DESIGN TEAM LEADER Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for PROMOTION REVIEWERS Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for CHANGE REQUEST REVIEW BOARD Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for PROMOTION APPROVERS Group
- •Rules for PRODUCT MANAGER Group
- •Default Domain Rule for PRODUCT MANAGER Group
- •System Domain Rule for PRODUCT MANAGER Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for CHANGE ADMINISTRATOR I Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for CHANGE ADMINISTRATOR II Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for TEAMMEMBERS Group
- •Rules in System Domain for TEAMMEMBERS Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for COLLABORATION MANAGER Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for VARIANCE APPROVERS Group
- •Rules for SHARED TEAM MANAGER Group
- •Default Domain Rule for SHARED TEAM MANAGER Group
- •System Domain Rule for SHARED TEAM MANAGER Group
- •Rules for OPTION ADMINISTRATOR Group
- •Default Domain Rules for OPTION ADMINISTRATOR Group
- •System Domain Rules for OPTION ADMINISTRATOR Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for OWNER
- •Out-of-the-box Object Initialization Rules
- •General Product and General Library Templates
- •Out-of-the-box Context Participation
- •Out-of-the-box Context Access Control Policies
- •Team Roles and Groups
- •Rules for the GUEST Group
- •Default Domain Rules for the GUEST Group
- •System Domain Rules for the GUEST Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for CHANGE REQUEST REVIEW BOARD Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for PROMOTION APPROVERS Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for PROMOTION REVIEWERS Group
- •Rules for PRODUCT MANAGER and LIBRARY MANAGER Groups
- •Default Domain Rule for PRODUCT MANAGER and LIBRARY MANAGER Groups
- •System Domain Rule for PRODUCT MANAGER and LIBRARY MANAGER Groups
- •Rules in Default Domain for CHANGE ADMINISTRATOR I Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for CHANGE ADMINISTRATOR II Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for TEAMMEMBERS Group
- •Rules in System Domain for TEAMMEMBERS Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for COLLABORATION MANAGER Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for VARIANCE APPROVERS Group
- •Rules for SHARED TEAM MANAGER Group
- •Default Domain Rule for SHARED TEAM MANAGER Group
- •System Domain Rule for SHARED TEAM MANAGER Group
- •Rules for OPTION ADMINISTRATOR Group
- •Default Domain Rules for OPTION ADMINISTRATOR Group
- •System Domain Rules for OPTION ADMINISTRATOR Group
- •Rules in Default Domain for OWNER
- •Updating Access Control Rules
- •Part to Document Relationships
- •Revised or Saved Part to Related Document
- •Document Version Used with Reference Link
- •Part to Part Relationships
- •Revised or Saved Parent Part to Child Part
- •Document to Document Relationships
- •Best Practices for Object Initialization Rules
- •Creating and Editing Projects and Programs
- •Managing Team Members and Roles
- •Controlling the Visibility of Actions
- •Establishing Roles
- •Overriding Profiles
- •Moving Objects
- •Managing Routing
- •Limiting Edit Privileges for All Action Items
- •Managing Templates
- •Managing Preferences
- •Importing and Exporting Information
- •Undoing a User Checkout
- •Viewing and Managing Access Policies
- •Managing Utilities
- •Part to Document Relationships
- •Revised or Saved Part to Related Document
- •Document Version Used with Reference Link
- •Part to Part Relationships (Projects Only)
- •Revised or Saved Parent Part to Child Part
- •Document to Document Relationships
- •Overview of Windchill Participants
- •Windchill Users
- •Windchill Groups
- •Windchill Organizations
- •Working with LDAP Directory Services
- •Searching for Participants in Administrative Clients
- •Best Practices for Windchill PDMLink and Windchill ProjectLink
- •Searching for Users and Groups
- •Managing Users
- •Changing User Passwords
- •Naming a User's Personal Cabinet
- •Associating Users with Profiles
- •Editing the Domain of a User
- •Deleting Users
- •Changing the Organization to which a User Belongs
- •Synchronizing Users with LDAP
- •Managing User-defined Groups
- •Working with User-defined Groups that are Maintained in a Directory Server
- •Deleting User-defined Groups
- •Managing Organizations
- •Deleting Organizations
- •Windchill Participant Status
- •Pending Users
- •Replicated Users
- •Activating Pending and Replicated Users
- •Best Practices for Assigning Domains to Participants
- •Receiving Administrative Notifications
- •Managing the Participant Cache
- •Automatically Purging Entries from the Participant Cache
- •Manually Purging Entries from the Participant Cache
- •Maintaining the Connections between Participant Objects and their Directory Server Entries
- •Registering a non-Windchill User
- •Profile Management
- •Creating Profiles
- •Profiles as a Visibility Control Mechanism
- •Default Profile Behavior for a New User
- •Global Default Settings
- •Overriding Profiles in an Application Context
- •Default Visibility for Application Context Managers
- •Out-of-the-Box Profiles
- •Profile Actions and User Interface Elements
- •Default Settings for Actions
- •Overview
- •Context Teams
- •Shared Teams
- •Understanding Life Cycles
- •Overview
- •The Life Cycle Model
- •Windchill Solutions
- •Life Cycle States
- •Basic and Advanced Life Cycles
- •Basic Life Cycles
- •Advanced Life Cycles
- •Managing Life Cycle Processes
- •Out-of-the-box Life Cycle Templates
- •Windchill PDMLink
- •Using the Product Design Template
- •Access Control for Parts Established Through the Product Design Template
- •Windchill ProjectLink
- •Security Labels and Agreements
- •Working with Life Cycle Templates
- •Life Cycle Properties
- •Defining Life Cycle Phases and Gates
- •State-based Revision Sequences by Life Cycle State
- •Transition Rules
- •Example of Defined Transitions
- •Transition Defaults
- •Role Mappings
- •Associating Life Cycles with Object Types
- •Defining Life Cycle Access Control Rules
- •Associating a Workflow Process with Phases and Gates
- •About Life Cycle Iteration
- •Importing and Exporting Life Cycle Templates
- •Promotion Process
- •Out-of-the-Box Workflow Processes using the Promote Transition
- •Manual Selection of Life Cycle and Team Templates
- •Defining Additional Life Cycle States
- •Best Practices
- •Life Cycle Support in Windchill ProjectLink
- •Life Cycle Teams in Windchill ProjectLink
- •Restrictions on Moving Objects Between Contexts
- •Understanding Workflow
- •Overview
- •Managing Workflow Security
- •Workflow Creators
- •Restricting Workflow-Embedded Java Code
- •Administrative Groups
- •Disabled Areas of the User Interface
- •Workflow Iteration
- •Testing an Edited Workflow Process Template
- •Using the Workflow Template Editor
- •Working with Workflow Templates
- •Navigating a Process Diagram
- •Placing Process Nodes
- •Declaring Variables
- •Defining an Assigned Activity
- •Defining a Subprocess
- •Defining Connectors
- •Defining Links
- •Process Manager Toolbar Access Control
- •Viewing Workflow History
- •Selecting Events
- •Using the Workflow History Viewer
- •Workflow Instance States
- •Out-of-the-Box Workflow Templates
- •Change Management Workflows
- •Change Activity Workflow
- •Change Notice Workflow
- •Change Request Workflow
- •Problem Report Workflow
- •Promotion Request Approval Process Workflow
- •Promotion Request Review Process Workflow
- •Variance Workflow
- •Out-of-the-Box Process Images
- •Workflow Template Execution Flags
- •Process Flags
- •Activity Flags
- •Both Process and Activity Flags
- •Modifying Execution Flags
- •Running SetConfiguration
- •Saving Your Work
- •Using Task Form Templates in a Workflow
- •Creating Task Form Templates with Adobe Forms Software
- •Electronic Signatures
- •Setting Up for Electronic Signatures
- •Requiring Electronic Signatures in a Workflow
- •Best Practices
- •Access Control and Workflow Templates
- •Using a Single Workflow in a Life Cycle Having Multiple States
- •Workflow Process Support in Windchill ProjectLink
- •Understanding Context Templates
- •Out-of-the-box Context Templates
- •Create a Context Template with a New Input File
- •Create a Template from the Current Context
- •Create a Context Using Export
- •Creating Business XML Files for Context Templates
- •Organization Templates
- •Product and Library Context Templates
- •Program and Project Context Templates
- •Required Contents of ZIP File Used for Importing a Context Template
- •Contents of Top-level XML File for Imported Templates
- •Managing Context Templates
- •Filtering Template Visibility
- •Enabling Templates
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The following out-of-the-box Windchill ProjectLink life cycle templates are basic:
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•Release
•Review
The following Windchill ProjectLink life cycle templates are advanced:
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•Notify Routing
•Release Routing
•Review Routing
•Two Level Approval Routing
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