Windchill - Versions and Iterations?

[bobmann]

Hi. We are just about to move up from Intralink 3.4 to Windchill 10.0. So far, only the Design Engineers have seen Intralink. Every drawing created in Pro/E for the last dozen years has been exported as an Autocad file or pdf. But now with Windchill, we will be opening up the system to many more people in the company.


One issue that has been raised is the Revision-Verison-Iteration scheme. Intralink always had Revisions and Versions, but people outside of Intralink only saw the Revision on the drawing. Nobody ever saw the version. In other words, they saw 'B', not 'B.5', or whatever.


But in Windchill, everything seems to show 'B.5'. Some folks here are worried that people will be confused at seeing this extra iteration information that nobody has seen before. Also, People are worried that if we share files in Windchill with vendors, that there might be some confusion over drawings that show 'B' but Windchill pages that show 'B.5'.


So my questions is: Is it possible to hide the Iteration information? Maybe on a Role basis. The Design Engineers understand what the '.5' means, so they should still be able to see it. But nobody else cares what the iteration is, so is there a way to hide it from everyone else?


Thanks!

 

[mdistler]

Hi.


You'll need to create a customer data utility. Details can be foundina similar post located here.





Michael Distler


PTC
Edited by: mdistler