I trying to discover what ways I can dynamically build a URL path to an object in the windchill database. We have external applications that I would like to be able to display the generated thumbnail representation that is stored in Windchill.
Doing some research, it appears the table FVITEM stores
- the filename on the disk in the vault
- vault folder name
It appears the table APPLICATIONDATA stores
- Role (thumbnail and thumbnail3d, etc)
- format (1031 which seems to mean JPG. I'm not sure what format 1046 or 1061 mean. I have not been able to find a list either)
It appears the table EPMDOCUMENT stores
- the name and number
I'm not sure how to relate (join) them all together yet. It looks like the pieces to be able to find the physical file, where it is stored is available so I could build a link to allow a user to view a thumbnail of the CAD Document.
My quesitons are:
- Has any one else done something like this where you provided a link to the windchill data without forcing a user to use Windchill UI?
- Are there better approaches than directly selecting information from the Oracle tables?
- Any suggestions or links to documentation and examples would all be useful.
Thanks
Mike