Article - CS32686
[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- Warning: Initially selected objects are no longer valid of the operation.

And


And

- 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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