Article - CS5932

How to access / recover other user's workspace or workspace data as an administrator in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 28-Jul-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 8.0 to 13.1

Description

  • How to access other user's (maybe employees who left the company) workspace data as an administrator?
  • How to Undo Checkout of another user's data as an administrator?
  • How to delete data that has been uploaded, but not checked in by a user who is no longer using Windchill or is not available?
  • Organization and Site Administrators are not able to access other users' workspaces
  • Searching for a CAD Document (EPMDocument) as administrator and clicking on the Workspace link in the Details page returns an error:
    • type Exception report message description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
      exception javax.servlet.ServletException: TypeBasedIncludeServlet: unable to determine the context type for type based lookups.
  • Administrator cannot check in data from other user's workspace
  • Cannot see the Other User's Workspaces table
  • Is it possible to export the other user's workspace content?
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