topic Re: change attribute value without new iteration in Windchill Customization

change attribute value without new iteration

rvanveerdeghem — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:00:56 GMT

Hello,We have a soap request from our ERP software to change some attributes in windchill. Every time you change a value we get a new iteration on that part. Is it possible to change the value of an attribute without getting a new iteration?We want to see the stock of a part in windchill.

Re: change attribute value without new iteration

RandyJones — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:12:50 GMT

Ruben Vanveerdeghem wrote:

Hello,

We have a soap request from our ERP software to change some attributes in windchill. Every time you change a value we get a new

iteration on that part. Is it possible to change the value of an attribute without getting a new iteration?

See this post:

How to link WTPart to EPMDocument without checkout of WTPart

and this post:

Re: Java Code to add Windchill IBA Values to WTPart Object

Re: change attribute value without new iteration

cdeshpandey — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 07:54:44 GMT

I have use the below code for modifying the attribute values without checkout in EPMDocument

public boolean setNormalizedAttribute(Persistable obj, String attributeName, Object ibaValue) throws Exception, IBADefinitionException, NotAuthorizedException, RemoteException, WTException, WTPropertyVetoException {

boolean isUpdated=false;
try
{
	IBAHolder ibaholder = (IBAHolder) obj;
	ibaholder = IBAValueHelper.service.refreshAttributeContainer(ibaholder, null, null, null);
	DefaultAttributeContainer defaultattributecontainer = (DefaultAttributeContainer) ibaholder.getAttributeContainer();
	System.out.println(defaultattributecontainer.toString());
	AttributeDefDefaultView addv = IBADefinitionHelper.service.getAttributeDefDefaultViewByPath(attributeName);
	AbstractValueView aabstractvalueview[] = defaultattributecontainer.getAttributeValues(addv);
	if (aabstractvalueview.length < 1) {
		StringValueDefaultView svdobj = new StringValueDefaultView((StringDefView)addv, (String) ibaValue);
		defaultattributecontainer.addAttributeValue(((AbstractValueView) (svdobj)));
	}
	else{
		for (int k = 0; k < aabstractvalueview.length; k++){
			((StringValueDefaultView)aabstractvalueview[k]).setValue((String) ibaValue);
			defaultattributecontainer.updateAttributeValue(aabstractvalueview[k]);
		}
	}
	StandardIBAValueService.theIBAValueDBService.updateAttributeContainer(ibaholder, null, null, null);
	isUpdated=true;
}
catch(Exception e)
{
	e.getMessage();

		e.printStackTrace();
	}
	return isUpdated;
}

Re: change attribute value without new iteration

rvanveerdeghem — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 07:55:29 GMT

Hi Randy,

Thanks for the information, but I can't find the solution for us.

This is what we do with a webject.

    <% logger.debug("-->CheckOut-Objects"); %>
    <ie:webject name="CheckOut-Objects" type="ACT">
      <ie:param name="INSTANCE" data="${session[]INSTANCE[0]}"/>
      <ie:param name="ATTRIBUTE" data="obid" delim=","/>
      <ie:param name="OBJECT_REF" data="${PART[0]obid[0]}"/>
      <ie:param name="GROUP_OUT" data="PART"/>
      <ie:param name="BLOB_COUNT" data="0"/>
    </ie:webject>
    <% logger.debug("-->Update-Objects"); %>
    <% logger.debug("-field: " + value); %>
    <ie:webject name="Update-Objects" type="ACT">
      <ie:param name="INSTANCE" data="${session[]INSTANCE[0]}"/>
      <ie:param name="SESSION_ID" data="${session_id[]SESSION_ID[]}"/>
      <ie:param name="AUTHORIZATION" data="${@server[]authorization[0]}"/>
      <ie:param name="GROUP_OUT" data="PART"/>
      <ie:param name="OBJECT_REF" data="${PART[0]obid[0]}"/>
      <ie:param name="BLOB_COUNT" data="0"/>
      <%for(int i=0;i<vAttribObjs.size();i++){%>
      <%AttributeObject aAttribObj = (AttributeObject)vAttribObjs.elementAt(i);%>
      <%logger.debug("attribute name " + aAttribObj.getAttributeName());%>
      <%logger.debug("attribute value " + aAttribObj.getAttributeValue());%>
      <%String sAttrib = aAttribObj.getAttributeName() + "='" + aAttribObj.getAttributeValue() + "'";%>
      <%logger.debug("attribute value " + sAttrib);%>
      <ie:param name="FIELD" data="<%=sAttrib%>"/>
      <%}%>
    </ie:webject>
    <% logger.debug("-->CheckIn-Objects"); %>
    <ie:webject name="CheckIn-Objects" type="ACT">
      <ie:param name="INSTANCE" data="${session[]INSTANCE[0]}"/>
      <ie:param name="AUTHORIZATION" data="${@server[]authorization[0]}"/>
      <ie:param name="OBJECT_REF" data="${PART[0]obid[0]}"/>
      <ie:param name="GROUP_OUT" data="PART"/>
      <ie:param name="SESSION_ID" data="${session[]SESSION_ID[0]}"/>
      <ie:param name="BLOB_COUNT" data="0"/>
      <ie:param name="ATTRIBUTE" data="*"/>
    </ie:webject>

So now we do this with checkout en checkin. What do I need to change so that we don't need to checkout and get a higher iteration?

I'm very new in this webject code and infoengine.

Thanks