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Modifying Hidden PTC Windchill Source Parameters

The Add Source and Source: ... General pages of the Administration Tool present the parameters with which you can configure the connector for most PTC Windchill sites. More advanced and more rarely used parameters are hidden. You can choose to make one or more of these parameters appear in the Add Source and Source: ... General pages of the Administration Tool so that you can change their default value.

The following list describes the available advanced hidden parameters for PTC Windchill sources. The parameter type (integer, string…) appears between parentheses following the parameter name.

BatchSize (Integer)

The number of items to retrieve with each call to the web service. The default value is 100.

UseVirtualGroupsPermissionModel (Boolean)

Whether to use the permission model with virtual groups expanded by the security provider. The default value is true.

By default, each permission set on documents to support policy access control lists (ACL) contains virtual groups as members. These virtual groups are expanded by the security provider to fill allowed and denied members and are maintained in the security cache. The connector can directly expand members when this parameter is set to false so that permissions are stored directly in the index.

It can be useful to set this parameter to false if the permission model gets too complex and may not scale. The disadvantage is that you must rebuild the source to catch permission changes rather than simply update the security cache.

ViewingApplicationDataOnlyRequiresDownloadPermission (Boolean)

Whether the Download permission is sufficient to access Application Data type documents, rather than the default Read+Download permissions. The default value is false.

The Coveo security provider cannot currently resolve the combined Read+Download permissions so by default, users will never see Application Data type documents in search results. Set this parameter to true when you want to allow users having the Download permission (with or without the read permission) for documents of this type to see them in search results.

When you change this parameter you must also select the Viewing Application Data Only Requires Download Permission security provider option (see Configuring a PTC Windchill Security Provider).

WebAppUrlFragment (String)

The web app URL fragment of the PTC Windchill application used to open search results. The default value is /app/#ptc1. Change this value only if you use a web app other than the default one.

OrganizationIdentifiers (String) CES 7.0.7711+ (June 2015)

The list of organization container IDs (separated by a semicolon) of the organization you wish to index.

Note: To find the organization ID, as a Windchill Admin, access the Details page of an organization and looks at the URL of the page. In the following capture, the container ID is 12345.

To modify hidden PTC Windchill source parameters

  1. Refer to Adding an Explicit Connector Parameter to add one or more PTC Windchill hidden source parameters.

  2. For a new PTC Windchill source, access the Add Source page of the Administration Tool to modify the value of the newly added advanced parameter:

    1. Select Index > Sources and Collections.

    2. Under Collections, select the collection in which you want to add the source.

    3. Under Sources, click Add.

    4. In the Add Source page, edit the newly added advanced parameter value.

  3. For an existing PTC Windchill source, access the Source: ... General page of the Administration Tool to modify the value of the newly added advanced parameter:

    1. Select Index > Sources and Collections.

    2. Under Collections, select the collection containing the source you want to modify.

    3. Under Sources, click the existing PTC Windchill source in which you want to modify the newly added advanced parameter.

    4. In the Source: ... General page, edit the newly added advanced parameter value.

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