Windchill System Administrator's Guide

2. Modify the wt.prefs.delegates.DelegateOrder value, if needed, to set the
correct hierarchy.
Although this basic corporate organization has a tree structure, preference
delegates are not limited to tree structures.
Setting the Hierarchy
The delegates.properties value wt.prefs.delegates.DelegateOrder controls the
hierarchy in which delegates are called. For each level in the hierarchy there
should be an entry in this property. The customized entries should appear as
DIVISION_CONTEXT. For example, in the out-of-the-box hierarchy, there is a
division scope called Windchill Enterprise, and the out-of-the-box
wt.prefs.delegates.DelegateOrder property value is:
$DEFAULT,$CONTAINER,$DIVISION:WindchillEnterprise,$USER
In this value, there is no DIVISION_POLICY_CONTEXT defined since
DIVISION_POLICY_CONTEXT and DIVISION_CONTEXT are related and are
at the same level in the preference hierarchy. Similarly, the
CONTAINER_POLICY_CONTEXT need not be included. Entries are designated
differently only when storing and retrieving preferences internally. For more
details on correctly naming delegates, see the delegates.properties file.
Note: If wt.prefs.delegates.DelegateOrder has been removed from the
delegates.properties file, Windchill uses the following:
$DEFAULT,$CONTAINER,$USER
A class that corresponds to the delegate is also required to be specified in the
delegates.properties file. For the above Windchill Enterprise division this might
be:
wt.prefs.delegates.class.$DIVISION/u003aWindchillEnterprise=
wt.prefs.delegates.WindchillEnterpriseDelegate
The value for this preference is the full package path name to the appropriate
delegate class. For example:
wt.prefs.delegates.WindchillEnterpriseDelegate
In the example, the wt.prefs.delegates.WindchillEnterpriseDelegate class would
handle the Windchill Enterprise division. If these divisions are handled properly
within the delegate, the delegate class is responsible for multiple divisions. When
completed, this preference would be added to preference.txt, located in
/loadFiles/, which loads the file each time the database is initialized
(when installing Windchill).
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