We're about to implement reverse proxy and open up our Windchill system to about 500 vendors, each with access to just one Project.
Current intensely studying / experimenting with both subscriptions and notification policies - attempting to set up such that Project templates will be helpful on this also. Finding many very large gaps and issues / limitations. These relate to, among others:
- cannot set up a subscription to a Role in the Project Team; only option is individual users or an Org-level Group
- cannot (so far) find a way to trigger policy notification when a CAD Doc or Doc is shared to a project, or updated in the project (works for subscription)
- cannot (so far) find a way to set up subscription for all folders in the project (works for any one folder)
- have been customizing the emails; after two workshops with SME's, all said to eliminate most items, leaving only a message and a hyperlink - they now would like to add a few
Most powerful and robust for notification is to set up:
- in this / these locations (e.g. a folder and subfolders)
- for these events (e.g. new CAD Doc shared to project)
- send to these people (e.g. whoever is currently mapped to the "Vendor" Role in the project team)
Really great stuff to be working on and I'm learning a lot. If anyone has gone down this path and would like to discuss, would love to hear from you.
thanks in advance
