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PTC Windchill Business Administration

( Duration: 3 Days )

In PTC Windchill Business Administration training course, you will gain an understanding of basic Windchill business administration tasks. You will learn how to create user accounts and groups and how to effectively plan and create information management storage strategies. Other topics will include life cycles, workflows, teams, and configuring domain policies. These skills enable you to configure Windchill PDMLink to meet business needs. After completing this course, you will be well prepared to set up and manage a basic Windchill implementation at your company. At the end of each module, you will complete a set of review questions to reinforce critical topics from that module.

By attending PTC Windchill Business Administration workshop, delegates will learn:

  • Understand the processes involved in defining your business environment.
  • Identify the use of a Windchill Organization.
  • Create an organization.
  • Create and manage user accounts and groups.
  • Identify best practices for managing organizations, groups, and user accounts.
  • Identify contexts and their relationships.
  • Assign product and library creators.
  • Create and manage product and library contexts.
  • Distinguish Windchill object names and their corresponding object type class names.
  • Create local, global, calculated, and alias attributes.
  • Create a Windchill subtypes.
  • Configure attribute layouts.
  • Identify and set object initialization rules.
  • Implement custom versioning sequences.
  • Create and define life cycle and workflow templates.
  • Associate life cycle and workflow templates.
  • Understand the Windchill domain policy architecture.
  • Define access control policies.
  • Identify individual access control permissions.
  • Administer and troubleshoot access control lists.
  • Define notification policies.
  • Define indexing policies.
  • Use context teams to apply access control.
  • Use context teams and team templates to conduct workflow role resolution.
  • Create and manage document templates within product, library, and organization contexts.
  • Identify how to create CAD document templates.
  • Create product and library context templates.
  • Create, manage, and edit promotion preferences.
  • Identify the promotion review and approval processes.
  • Understand change management flexibility.
  • Create change association rules.
  • Identify change objects, life cycles, workflows, and team templates.
  • Administer administrator-saved searches.
  • Administer user profiles.
  • Administer Windchill views.
  • Administer calendar functions.
  • Administer organization preferences.
  • Identify the report manager functions.
  • Identify visualization publishing controls.
  • Identify purge manager functions.
  • Audit system events.
  • Manage User Licenses.
  • Manage License Profile.

  • Knowledge of Windchill.

The PTC Windchill Business Administration class is ideal for:

  • Business administrators, system administrators, and project team leaders. Implementation team members, including user adoption team members and those with general Windchill administration responsibilities, will also benefit from taking this course.

COURSE AGENDA

1

Introduction to Windchill Business Administration

  • PTC Windchill PLM Solutions
  • The Windchill Server
  • The Windchill Client
  • The Windchill Database
  • Optional Servers
  • Understanding Windchill Terminology
  • Understanding Primary Business Objects
  • Understanding Policies, Processes, and Participants
  • Role of the Business Administrator
  • Common Windchill Objects
  • Configuring Object Types and Attributes
  • Managing Participants
  • Managing User Licenses
  • License Profiles
  • License Profile Hierarchy
  • License and Standard Profile Interaction
  • Identifying a Data Storage Strategy
  • Identifying Business Processes
  • Managing Windchill Policies
2

Managing Participants

  • Participant Architecture
  • Identifying Windchill Users
  • Groups
  • License Groups
  • User and Group Structure
  • Best Practices for Organizations, Users, and Groups
  • Introduction to Windchill Contexts
  • Administrative Navigation
  • Creating a Windchill Organization Context
  • Creating Users and Groups
  • Creating User Accounts
  • Troubleshooting User Accounts
  • Creating Groups
  • Group Membership
  • Managing Existing Participants
  • Updating User Account Information
  • Deleting a User Account - Steps
  • Identify the Results of Deleting a User
  • Business Process Implications of Deleting Users
  • Workspace Implications of Deleting Users
  • Running Process Implications of Deleting Users
  • Deleting a User Account
  • Deleting Groups
  • Results of Deleting a Group
  • Business Process Implications of Deleting Groups
  • Deleting an Organization
3

Managing Contexts

  • Understanding Contexts
  • Relationships Between Contexts
  • Identifying Locations for Storing Data
  • Windchill Product Characteristics
  • Results of Creating a Product
  • Windchill Library Characteristics
  • Results of Creating a Library
  • Windchill Project Characteristics
  • Windchill Program Characteristics
  • Results of Creating a Project or a Program
  • Assigning Context Creators
  • Creating Products
  • Creating Libraries
  • Using Folders
  • The Move Action
  • Moving an Object
4

Managing Objects, Object Types, and Object Attributes

  • Windchill Objects Review
  • Types of Attributes
  • Modeled Attributes
  • Local and Global Attributes
  • Calculated and Alias Attributes
  • Windchill Object Typing Capability
  • The Type and Attribute Manager
  • Creating Reusable Attributes
  • Global Enumerations
  • Extending and Subtyping Objects
  • Constraining Attributes
  • Types of Constraints
  • Constraining Strings to a Set of Values
  • Adding Attributes to Types
  • New Attribute Wizard - Page 1
  • New Attribute Wizard - Page 2
  • New Attribute Wizard - Page 3
  • Managing Attribute Constraints
  • Managing Attribute Visibility
  • Adding Columns to Types
  • Running the AddColumns Utility
  • AddColumns Report and Addressing Warnings
  • Local and Global Attribute Comparison
  • Using Formulas in Calculated Attributes
  • Alias Attribute Mapping
  • Managing Type Layouts
  • Inheriting Type Layouts
  • Creating Shared Tabs
  • Creating Subtypes
  • Localizing Types and Attributes
  • Cascading Attributes
  • New Cascading Attribute Enhancements
  • Enumerations and Cascading Attribute Rules
  • Creating a New Cascading Attribute Rule
  • Editing a Cascading Attribute Rule
  • Editing a Cascading Attribute Rule Condition
  • Running the Attribute Set Report
  • Graphical Attributes
  • Creating a Traffic Light Graphical Attribute
  • Creating a Percent Complete Graphical Attribute
  • Creating a Progress Bar Graphical Attribute
  • Error Conditions
  • Measurement System Administration
  • Quantity of Measure Administration
5

Managing Object Type Behavior

  • Object Initialization Rules
  • Object Initialization Rule Management
  • Object Types Managed by Object Initialization Rules
  • Object Initialization Rule Example
  • Life Cycle Association Rules
  • Team Template Association Rules
  • Object Numbering Scheme Rules
  • Custom Numbering Scheme Rules
  • Folder Path Rules
  • Versioning Scheme Rules
  • Types of Harvard Versioning Schemes
  • File-Based and State-Based Versioning
6

Automating Processes Using Life Cycles and Workflows

  • Assess Your Business Processes
  • Identifying Process Management Objects
  • Understanding Windchill Life Cycles
  • Understanding Windchill Life Cycle Types
  • Defining Object Life Cycle Resolution
  • Creating a Life Cycle
  • Specifying Life Cycle Properties
  • Adding Life Cycle States
  • Identifying a Version Series
  • State-Based Versioning Example
  • Understanding Transitions
  • Understanding Life Cycle Transition Types
  • Transition Examples
  • Defining Role Participation
  • Defining Access Permissions Using Life Cycles
  • Selecting Workflow Templates
  • Modular Workflow Approach
  • Single Workflow Approach
  • Life Cycle Best Practices
  • Defining Workflow Templates
  • Defining Workflow Templates
  • Defining Workflow Template Properties
  • Understanding Assigned Activities
  • Defining Assigned Activities
  • Understanding Connectors and Terminals
  • Using Links
  • Setting Link Properties
  • Simplifying Complex Processes
  • Using Robots to Automate Tasks
  • Creating a Workflow Template
  • Workflow Process Manager
7

Managing Teams

  • Team Management
  • Terminology - Context Team
  • Terminology - Shared Team
  • Terminology - Team Template
  • Terminology - Team Instance
  • Terminology - Context and Resource Bundle Roles
  • Context Team Architecture
  • The Team Members Context Group
  • Context Team Architecture Example
  • Adding a New Context Role
  • Adding a User to the Context Role
  • Applying Access Control with Context Teams
  • Access Control for Application Context Templates
  • Best Practices for Using Context Teams for Access Control
  • Shared Teams
  • Shared Teams Show Team Uses Query
  • Using a Shared Team
  • Role Resolution with Teams
  • Understanding Role Resolution and Team Templates
  • Understanding Role Resolution and Context Teams
  • Understanding Role Resolution and Team Instances
  • Team Instance Definition
  • Team Instance Definition (cont.)
  • Defining Object Team Template Resolution
  • Creating Team Templates
  • Proper Team Role Resolution
  • Team Role Resolution Best Practices
  • Guests Context Role
  • Members Context Role
  • Application Context Manager Role
  • Change Administrator and Change Review Board Context Roles
  • Promotion Approvers and Reviewers Context Roles
  • Organization Roles
  • Application Context Roles
  • Custom Resource Bundle Roles
  • Team Management Best Practices
8

Managing Domain Policies and Access Control

  • Planning Access Control Strategies
  • Windchill Context Architecture
  • Cabinets
  • Administrative Domains
  • Defining Windchill Domain Architecture
  • Defining Windchill User Domain Architecture
  • Defining Windchill System Domain Architecture
  • Defining Windchill Special Site Domain Architecture
  • Defining Windchill Data Domain Architecture
  • Defining Windchill Private Domain Architecture
  • Defining Windchill Folder Domain Architecture
  • Domain Architecture in the Policy Administrator
  • Domain Access Control Rule - Components
  • Domain Access Control Rule - Participants
  • Domain Access Control Rule - Permissions
  • Defining Access Control Permissions
  • Explicitly Granting Access
  • Explicitly Denying Access
  • User Permissions
  • Inverse Deny
  • Access at the Root Type - Example 1
  • Access at the Root Type - Example 2
  • Using the Absolute Deny Permission
  • How Access Control Lists Work
  • Permissions Needed for Move Operations
  • Permissions Needed for Set Life Cycle State Operations
  • Permissions Needed for Change Identify Operations
  • Permissions Needed for View/Download Content Operations
  • Permissions Needed for Modify Content Operations
  • Creating Folder Domains
  • Ad Hoc Access Control
  • Editing Access Control Permissions
  • Troubleshooting Access Control Issues
  • Security Labeled Objects
  • Object Locks
  • Understanding Access Control - Review
  • Defining a Notification Policy
  • Implementing a Notification Policy
  • Troubleshooting Context-Based Notifications
  • Defining an Indexing Policy
  • Implementing an Indexing Policy
9

Managing Organization Templates

  • Windchill Templates
  • Context Templates
  • Template Access
  • Creating Document Templates
  • Creating CAD Document Templates
  • Creating a Context Template
  • Out-of-the-Box Product and Library Templates
  • Organization Templates
  • Actions for Context Templates
10

Implementing Promotion and Change Processes

  • Setting Up a Change Management Process
  • Windchill Change Management
  • Change Management Process Flexibility
  • Change Association Rules
  • Creating New Change Association Rules
  • Enabling and Disabling Change Association Rules
  • Modes of Operation
  • Understanding the Association Types
  • Windchill Change Management Components
  • Windchill Change Objects
  • Identifying Change Management Life Cycles
  • Identifying Change Management Workflow Templates
  • Problem Report Life Cycle
  • Problem Report Workflow
  • Change Request Life Cycle
  • Change Request Workflow
  • Updated Change Request Process for Offline and Online CRB Processes
  • Change Notice Life Cycle
  • Change Notice Workflow
  • Business Rules
  • Implementing Business Rules - Change Notice Conditionals
  • Implementing Business Rules - Change Notice Code
  • Implementing Business Rules - Change Notice Activity
  • Business Rule Sets
  • Business Rules and Links
  • Creating and Editing Business Rules
  • Change Activity/Change Notice Task Life Cycle
  • Change Activity/Change Notice Task Workflow
  • Process and Life Cycle Relationships
  • Identifying Change Management Team Templates
  • Assigning Participants to Change Management Roles
  • Configuring Change Management Preferences and Administration
  • Change Object Templates
  • Creating a Change Notice Template
  • Creating a Change Task Template
  • Native Task Form Templates
  • Creating Native Task Form Templates
  • Managing Promotion Preferences
  • Understanding the Promote Action in a Basic Life Cycle
  • The Promotion Request Approval Process
  • The Promotion Request Review Process
  • Managing Promotion Preference Processes
  • Creating a New Promotion Process Preference
  • Changing a Promotion Preference
11

Administrative Support Tools

  • Using ModelCHECK Validation During Check In
  • Configuring the Windchill Home Page
  • Administrator-Saved Searches
  • User Profiles
  • Windchill Views
  • Configuring Custom Views
  • Calendar Management
  • Preference Management
  • Managing Report Templates
  • Authoring Reports
  • Query Builder
  • Visualization Publishing Tools
  • Purge Management
  • Purge Management Queries
  • Security Auditing and Usage Reporting
  • Usage Reporting
  • Security Audit Reporting

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