topic Re: WTParts–Change Notice Linking Approach in Windchill Customization

WTParts–Change Notice Linking Approach

MS_11082662 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:16:13 GMT

I'm exploring configurable links for change management. Can you walk me through your approach to linking WTParts with Change Notices, especially:
- how the custom link type was defined,
- how you automated link creation when parts are added to Affected Objects, and
- how you exposed these links so users can see which products have running changes?
Any implementation tips would be very helpful.

Reference topic: Solved: What is the use of configurable links in windchill... - PTC Community

Re: WTParts–Change Notice Linking Approach

joe_morton — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:40:03 GMT

Hi,

I'm curious why you're investigating configurable links. Why not use the out-of-the-box links? If I'm not mistaken, WTParts can link to a Change Notice as either Affected Objects or Resultant Objects.

Re: WTParts–Change Notice Linking Approach

MS_11082662 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:46:12 GMT

Currently i am exploring the Collective configurable link. tha the is aviable in the ptc help center. I had doubt on it,

Hello,

Thank you for taking over this case. I would like to give you a quick overview of the issue so we can continue smoothly.

We are facing a problem with the Configurable Link Collection features in a vanilla Windchill environment (no custom code involved). In the Save As UI and the and in the Configurable Link Collector, the following default Windchill actions are not working as expected:

Collect related Describe child objects
Collect related Master child objects
Collect related Reference child objects
Collect related Revision child objects
Collect related Describe parent objects
Collect related Master parent objects
Collect related Reference parent objects
Collect related Revision parent objects

These icons/actions are part of standard Windchill functionality, but they are not behaving correctly.

Re: WTParts–Change Notice Linking Approach

joe_morton — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:13:04 GMT

I want to make sure there's no misunderstanding - you posted your question to the PTC Community page. This isn't a place for PTC Support cases, it's a place where community members help each other with questions and such.