Article - CS28597
Is it possible to change the Versioning Scheme of existing objects in Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 04-Jun-2025
Applies To
- Windchill PDMLink 9.0 to 13.1
Description
- Is it possible to change the Versioning Scheme for Existing/Legacy Objects
- Is it possible to change the Versioning Scheme for already existing objects
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Updating a custom revision series and loaded it again, getting error below:
Unable to insert wt.series.SeriesSortValue wt.pom.UniquenessException: Cannot create "Series Sort Value - " because its identity is not unique. -
What is the recommended approach to change the Versioning schema for objects
- What is the recommended approach to change the Versioning scheme's minimum level
- Is it possible to reorder revision labels of Versioning scheme and apply to existing data
- How to change Numbering Scheme and Versioning Scheme for Existing/Legacy Objects
- Is it possible to change Numbering Scheme and Versioning Scheme for Existing/Legacy Objects
- Required to modify the versioning details for existing objects, how should this be performed
- Need to change the Versioning Scheme for existing objects in the database
- Is it possible to change the Revision series of existing EPMDocuments/WTPart/WTDocument
- During Migration a series was defined for objects coming from Pro/Intralink
- All new objects will be using StateBased Series and old objects still use the series used at the time of Migration
- What issues PTC see updating versioning scheme or series for existing objects CAD Objects / documents / Parts etc
- Possibility to change revision series of existing EPM Document, WTParts and WTDocument via API
- What are the impacts of modifying the File-Based Series file by directly appending our custom series?
- What are the best practices for maintaining the File-Based Series?
- What are all OOTB configurations impacted by these file modifications.
- Is it supported / ok to add new revision values in between the series for existing objects
- For eg. Let us say document currently has revisions ZZ, and B
- Is it ok to introduce new revisions in the series after ZZ, ZZAA, ZZAB and then B
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