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[Knowledge Hub] Windchill ProjectLink/PDMLink Interaction - Access Control

Modified: 26-Jun-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 9.1 F000 to 12.1
  • Windchill ProjectLink 9.1 to 12.1

Description

  • Required permissions to share or unshare an object between Windchill PDMLink and Windchill ProjectLink
  • ProjectLink/PDMLink Interaction - Permission/ACLs
  • ProjectLink/PDMLink Data Sharing - Permission/ACLs
  • What are the required permissions for "Add to Project" and other related actions to be available in Windchill ProjectLink
  • What are the required permissions for Windchill ProjectLink related actions to be enabled:
    • Add to Project
    • Add to Baseline
    • Add to Managed Collection
    • Add to My Notebook
    • Add to Package
  • Add to Project action is disabled (greyed out) for objects like CAD Documents, WTDocuments, WTParts etc.
  • What access permissions are required for sharing an object to ProjectLink and vice versa?
  • Errors:
    • FAILURE: Ineligible objects selected. The object(s) you selected is ineligible for Add to Project, or you do not have access to the object(s).
OR
  • Warning: Initially selected objects are no longer valid of the operation.
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And

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  • What are the permissions setup in Windchill ProjectLink?
  • What permissions are valid only in Project?
  • What are the permissions inherited from PDMLink to Projects?
  • Required permissions for sharing between products or libraries and projects
  • Required permissions in Projects
  • Project related actions
  • What permission is required in order to share an object from PDMLink to ProjectLink
  • How to change the Access Control Lists (ACLs) to allow unsharing an object
  • Which policies need to be altered to allow sharing or unsharing objects to projects
  • User is getting error while action Remove Share on the object:
  • "Ineligible objects selected. Only accessible objects that have been shared to project are eligible to for Remove Share"
  • Is it necessary to grant read permission to the user in the PDMLink source context to enable the visibility of the shared object?
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