Article - CS291231
Configuring ThingWorx ODataConnector and Windchill to use Windchill Authentication
Modified: 15-Oct-2025
Applies To
- Windchill Navigate (formerly ThingWorx Navigate) 1.6.0 to 9.7
- ThingWorx Platform 8.1 to 9.7
Description
- Configuring ODataConnector and Windchill to use Windchill authentication
- How to configure Integration Connector other than OAuth, to request Windchill APIs using the login user permission instead of requesting as fixed admin user?
- The ptc-windchill-OData-connector GetEndpointList and other services fail with
Metadata transformer expected 2 metadatas and received 0 actual caused by a 401 error - ptc-windchill-OData-connector shows
Failed status with 401-Unauthorizedmessage - Add a script to the GetCustomHeaderParameters service in order to set the Remote User, by setting wt.effectiveUid to the CurrentUser in the script
- ValidateConnection Service from ptc-windchill-OData-connector fails with error
403 - 403 - When configuring the ptc-windchill-OData-connector using Windchill Authentication it fails to connect to Windchill
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