Selecting a Global Configuration

Once OSLC Configuration Management is enabled on the Windchill product or library, it becomes possible to select a Global Configuration in the Collaboration Links table of a Windchill Part.

To select a Global Configuration (GC):

  1. Locate and click on the currently selected GC next to the Refresh button at the top of the links table.
  2. It opens a Configuration context panel, in which you can see the selected GC, and the Local Context it resolves to in the current Windchill product or library, if any.
  3. Click on the Actions button, this menu will be displayed:

Note that in order to display the Global Configuration Application picker dialog, the friending of Global Configuration Application must have been done in Managing Friends.

Save an As-Designed context on a Windchill Part

It is often the case that a specific Windchill Part version is created in relation to specific versions of requirements and/or quality management artifacts. In order to capture the exact artifact versions as they were when the Part version was created and/or validated, it is possible to save a GC as the As-Designed context of a Part version.

Once done, you are free to display the Part links in any configuration context, and easily go back to the As-Designed context by selecting the Switch to As-Designed menu element.

An As-Designed context association can be removed from a Part version at any time by selecting the Clear As-Designed context menu element.