Windchill System Administrator's Guide

which a Windchill 7.0 product is installed. This list would identify the products
and into which directories they are installed. Maintaining the list ensures that
updates are applied to all the correct locations.
Instructions for installing the Windchill Service Pack are included in the
documentation accompanying it at each maintenance release.
Best Practices for Managing Windchill Installation and Maintenance
As many customers implement and deploy Windchill, they find it necessary to
modify some of the files provided by PTC. These changes include simple tuning
of properties file entries, adding and modifying enumerated lists, altering
displayed values for business types, attributes, modifying HTML or JSPs, and so
on. Sites also add new classes, JSPs, HTML pages, extend the model, and so on.
Some types of changes can conflict with updates provided by PTC during the
maintenance cycle. Managing these updates properly will greatly simplify the
installation of updates. It is important that those developing these modifications
and building new customizations at your site understand how the maintenance
process works and coordinate their updates with those responsible for installing
software updates.
The details on best practices is provided through the Windchill Solutions R7.0
Maintenance Information paper that is available from the PTC Technical Support
Web site. The topics in the paper include:
• Use of the xconfmanager utility and XCONF files for managing
modifications to PTC property files, and for defining new property files for
site customizations.
For general information on the xconfmanager utility, see Using the
xconfmanager Utility.
• Properly managing changes to enumerations (valid value lists), messages and
displayed values for modeled business classes, attributes and associations by
using RBINFO files. General information on this capability, including the
enumCustomize utility for modifying enumerations is covered in the
Windchill Customizer’s Guide.
• Properly managing modifications to existing HTML templates and creating
new ones to replace standard PTC templates. Reference information is in the
Windchill Customizer’s Guide.
• Properly handling modified JSPs, where it is permissible to do so.
• Ensuring that applet JAR files are updated properly as site modifications and
customizations are added. These JARs must be updated with changes that
occur on the server.
Note: Windchill 7.0 has restructured these JARs to minimize the client
download impact as updates through maintenance and customization occur.
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