- Part 1: Foundations
- Architecture at a glance
- The object model you must know
- Where things live on disk
- How a typical change flows
- Glossary of daily terms
- Part 2: Administrator handbook
- Operating routines
- Participants, access control
- OIRs, lifecycles and workflows
- Queues, vaults, search, publishing
- Performance, backup, patching, security
- Part 3: Developer cookbook
- Customization ground rules and build
- API recipes: finding, creating, changing objects
- Structures, documents, change objects
- Services, event listeners, processing queues
- Workflows, utilities, loaders, logging, testing
- Part 4: Troubleshooting playbook
- The 7-step method
- 27 problem-to-fix cards
- Part 5: Consultant playbook
- Engagement flow and discovery
- Running a health check
- Estimating, upgrades, data migration
- Deliverable and meeting templates
- Part 6: Toolkit
- Health-check scripts, log analysis
- Export, audit and bulk utilities
- Templates and checklists
- Appendix and quick reference
The Windchill Field Guide
Admin handbook, developer cookbook, 27 problem-to-fix cards and a consultant's toolkit
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The practical Windchill reference for administrators, developers and PLM consultants: 27 problem-to-fix cards, 25+ Java API recipes, admin routines and ready-to-use scripts.
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Windchill knowledge is scattered across release notes, support articles, forum threads and the heads of a few experienced people. This guide puts the practical part in one place: how Windchill is built, how to run it, how to extend it, and what to do when it breaks.
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- Foundations: architecture, the object model (master, version, iteration), contexts, how a change flows, and the four checks behind every "I can't edit this" ticket.
- Administrator handbook: daily, weekly and monthly routines, participants, access control, queues, vaults, search, publishing, performance tuning, backup, patching and security hardening.
- Developer cookbook: 25+ Java API recipes: queries, check-out and check-in, revisions, BOM and where-used, content files, change objects, listeners, processing queues, utilities, plus a code review checklist.
- Troubleshooting playbook: a 7-step method and 27 problem-to-fix cards (symptoms, likely causes, fix, prevention) for the incidents that fill real support queues.
- Consultant playbook: discovery questions, health checks, estimating, upgrades, data migration, deliverable and meeting templates.
- Toolkit: health-check scripts for Linux and Windows, log analysis, export and audit utilities, a deploy script, and templates.
Covers Windchill 11.x to 13.x. Release-sensitive commands and APIs are clearly flagged, and an appendix gives you a checklist to validate them on your own system.
Also available in French (Windchill – Le guide de terrain) and Spanish (Windchill – Guía de campo).
Independent guide based on field experience. Windchill and PTC are trademarks of PTC Inc. This guide is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by PTC.
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Mouad Jaoucha
Mouad Jaoucha is a PLM Windchill consultant and Java developer based in Casablanca, Morocco. Since 2022 he has worked on enterprise Windchill environments: administration, customization, troubleshooting and support.
He writes practical, field-tested guides for the people who keep Windchill running and extend it: administrators, developers and PLM consultants. His guides focus on what you actually need during an incident or a project, with real problem-to-fix cards, working code recipes and ready-to-use checklists.
Books are available in English, French and Spanish.
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