How to search the database for the creator
How to search the database for the creator
(OP)
Hi,
(using WF5.0 and Windchill)
I'm relatively new to Windchill. I'd like to search commonspace for the creator. I haven't yet figured out how to do that type of search. Surely it can be done, right? Can someone give me a clue?
Thanks
SrG.
(using WF5.0 and Windchill)
I'm relatively new to Windchill. I'd like to search commonspace for the creator. I haven't yet figured out how to do that type of search. Surely it can be done, right? Can someone give me a clue?
Thanks
SrG.





RE: How to search the database for the creator
Select Search Criteria at the bottom and choose criteria Created By and then select the operator and value and hit the search button.
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
Ben Loosli
RE: How to search the database for the creator
RE: How to search the database for the creator
You want to search for the 'EPM Document' which is the holder of the CAD files.
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
Ben Loosli
RE: How to search the database for the creator
RE: How to search the database for the creator
RE: How to search the database for the creator
In the Define Scope of Search area is a Search for box with a Find button. My box defaults to Document. Press the Find and in the pop-up, scroll down and select EPM Document.
Then fill in the Select Search Criteria fields for creator, etc.
I am on PDMLink 9 M050, so things may be different on 9.1.
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
Ben Loosli
RE: How to search the database for the creator
Tanks for your all your help.
SrG.
RE: How to search the database for the creator
PDMLink, IntraLink, MPMLink, ProjectLink?
9.0, 9.1 and 10 are all different.
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
Ben Loosli
RE: How to search the database for the creator
thanks,SrG
RE: How to search the database for the creator
Windchill is base technology, only a big toolkit. PDMlink and Intralink are applications built on the Windchill framework. Intralink in this case is 8.0 and higher, not the simplier 3.x version.
If your company implemented Windchill as a means of saving your engineers time, the person that did the selling should be sued or fired. Any complex data management system will not save you time directly from the engineering side. It does provide benefits to the company as a whole, if fully implemented and tuned. Tuning is more than just software settings. Is your hardware prefroming fast enough for the load of your use community?
At my last admin job, we had a dual processor Xeon with 4GB of memory as the Windchill server with 30-40 users. Had to reboot twice a day to keep the method servers from choking themselves to death. Upgradeed to a dual quad-core with 16GB memory and my reboots went down and performance went up. Still rebooted every night, but that deals with Wintel machines in general since their memory management is terrible.
If you implemented PDMLink, are you using it to its fullest or should you have implemented Intralink instead? Intralink does CAD vaulting and release cycles, just like 3.4 did. PDMLink does full change management from initial problem report to change notification with CAD vaulting a part in the middle.
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
Ben Loosli