topic Re: How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to delete them? in ThingWorx Developers

How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to delete them?

ccertain — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:19:11 GMT

In some cases, after you have created Thing Shapes, Templates, Things and mashups it could appear that you want to change the names because you found out some typographical errors or need to change the existing names from a logical/structural/organization point of view .

Our customer does not want to delete or copy them because there are existing relations between the "Things" themselves and the mashups

Is it planned for a future release?

Thanks

Christoph

Re: How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to delete them?

Aanjan — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:52:11 GMT

Christoph, direct renaming of entities is unfortunately not available at the moment. The workaround for this is to duplicate the entity and then add the corrected name to them.

Re: How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to delete them?

ccertain — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:55:41 GMT

thanks Aanjan! it would be great to know if we have any plans for that.

Re: How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to delete them?

jdelaiglesia — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:15:15 GMT

hi,

You can also export your entities and change name in the xml file.

Re: How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to delete them?

Aanjan — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:23:32 GMT

Although it is possible this way, it is not a good practice and definitely not recommended to change the names in the xml file. Missing one occurrence, or adding unintended special characters might break the import too.

Re: How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to delete them?

Aanjan — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:26:34 GMT

This actually has been a long standing feature request. There's no roadmap yet for this feature, but I'll be able to provide you with more information once the Jira is updated or I hear back from the devs. Thanks!

Re: How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to delete them?

CarlesColl — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 07:03:30 GMT

+1 To this feature request.

Re: How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to delete them?

ptc-4653108 — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 08:19:34 GMT

I would say copying an renaming is a bad practice because all the service bindings in the Mashups etc. are not copied as well and you have to redo it.

Re: How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to delete them?

jhernández-2 — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 10:03:09 GMT

Re: How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to delete them?

vxavier — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:17:36 GMT

Re: How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to

MariusB — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:47:34 GMT

Hello,

Isn't it possible to make a modification in the database, if yes what would be the tables which need to be updated,apart from thing_model, what are the logical connections?

Best regards,

Marius

Re: How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to

posipova — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:13:27 GMT

The answer to this thread from the officially supported PTC perspective has not change: it is currenly not possible to rename existing entities.

Re: How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to

Erik25 — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:59:24 GMT

+1 push
the workaround and dublicated things takes a long time.

Re: How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to

BFO — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:55:54 GMT