Defining Life Cycle Phases and Gates

The properties of a life cycle phase are available when the phase is selected when viewing, creating, or editing a life cycle template. Available properties and tabs will vary if the life cycle is basic or advanced. For all life cycles, the following properties are defined:

•State

Windchill provides predefined states (for example, In Work and Under

Review). You can define additional states by adding them to the StateRB. rbInfo resource file. For more information, see Defining Additional Life Cycle

•Transitions

There are multiple transitions available out-of-the-box. You can define additional transitions by adding them to the TransitionRB.rbInfo resource file as described in the PTC Windchill Customization Guide. This resource file is located in the <Windchill>/src/wt/lifecycle directory

For advanced life cycles, the following properties are also defined:

•Roles

•Access Control

•Workflow

For more information, see the life cycle help.

State-based Revision Sequences by Life Cycle State

The versioning schemes for Windchill PDMLink are identified based on the object type through object initialization rules.

For a specific object type, such as a part or document subtype, each object type can use a specific version scheme referenced by a scheme name.

These version schemes are then identified in an XML file. For example, the out- of-the-box XML file loaded with Windchill PDMLink is:

StateBasedVersioning.xml

This file contains the sequences and seeds (for example, NUMERIC and

MILSTD).