Article - CS316552

Unable to access the Yes/No Inventor menu of saving individual modified components while connected to Windchill Workgroup Manager

Modified: 17-May-2023   


Applies To

  • Windchill ProjectLink 11.0 to 12.0.1.0
  • Windchill PDMLink 11.0 to 12.0.1.0
  • Windchill Workgroup Manager
  • Autodesk Inventor 2019 (and earlier), 2021

Description

  • Unable to access the Yes/No Inventor menu of saving individual modified components while connected to Windchill Workgroup Manager
    • This can be accessed when using just Inventor (not with Windchill Workgroup Manager)
  • The following operations do not provide the Yes/No Inventor Save prompt
    1. Register Inventor in Windchill Workgroup Manager client
    2. Add Inventor assembly to Windchill 
    3. Open a few components from this assembly in individual Inventor windows
    4. Make changes to some but do not save the changes at the component level
    5. Close each of the separate windows to return to the main assembly window
    6. Attempt to use Save in Inventor 
  • The Save operation from Autodesk Inventor  is not available when application is registered in Windchill Workgroup Manager
    • The Save dialog box prompts
Do you want to save changes to <assembly name> and its dependents?
 
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  • iFactory members (Family table instances) don't get their attributes (Custom iProperties) updated correctly upon saving
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