Article - CS291518
How to run Creo and Windchill Workgroup Manager connecting to Windchill with a user in Windchill License Exclusion Group for testing and administration purpose in Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 16-Mar-2026
Applies To
- Creo Parametric 4.0 M050 to 11.0
- PTC Arbortext Editor 7.1 M020
- Windchill PDMLink 11.1 M010 to 13.1
- Windchill ProjectLink 11.1 M010 to 13.1
- Windchill Visualization Services (WVS)
- Windchill Workgroup Manager (WWGM)
Description
- Provide ability to run Creo and Windchill Workgroup Manager connecting to Windchill with a user in Windchill License Exclusion Group for testing and administration purpose
- Why do we have to purchase a separate license for the wcadmin (admin or test user) user to publish files?
- Where to find License Exclusion Group?
- How to add administrator to PTC Creo Data Management and Visualization License group without missing Administrator permission? We need to let administrator able to test and support Creo functionality in terms of connecting and updating data in windchill from Creo
- After adding the site administrator to the PTC Creo Data Management and Visualization License
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The user was missing the Search tab, the Browse tab stopped showing icons for Recent Products/Libraries/Projects
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Site utilities list was very limited
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