Article - CS20956
Cause and Resolution of Incomplete, Ghost objects or Placeholder Documents in interaction with Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 03-Dec-2025
Applies To
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
- Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 13.0
- Windchill Workgroup Manager
Description
- How to resolve Check In Conflicts with place holder documents
Conflict Description:
Cannot check in place holder document <model type> - <filename>, <ORG>, A.1.
- What causes incomplete or ghost objects to be created in Workspaces when Interacting with Windchill PDMLink
- How to remove incomplete, ghost or placeholder documents unexpected created during save of an assembly or part in a linked session
- Why are there ghost files in workspace
- User is unable to check in or delete CAD drawings in workspace with error below
- Best Practice of resolving incomplete, ghost objects or placeholder Documents when interacting with Windchill PDMLink
- Cannot check in, delete, remove or update some new CAD Documents unexpectedly created in the Workspace when saving other models
- An attempt to check files in to the Windchill Commonspace fails and the reason given in Even management:
Cannot check in place holder document Assembly <model type> - <filename>, <ORG>, <version>
- How to prevent ghost object creation
- Unable to find the location where ghost file is stored
- Unable to remove uncompleted 3d model from workspace resulting in failure due to ghost object
- Fails to check the assembly with some some parts like fragment
- There would have place holder generated in workspace when save the sub-assembly copy, how to break the reference between sub-assembly and parent to avoid generating place holder
- Unable to check-in and auto associate the CAD and Drawing file because of ghost file present in workspace
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