Upgrading to WF 5.0 from WF 2.0

[SrGilberto]

Hi,
We just had a demonstration of Wildfire 5.0 yesterday. We plan to upgrade soon to WF5.0 from WF2.0 and Intralink 3.4.
I see that your workspace is accessed with a slide out panel from within Pro-E. Here are a few quick questions about Wildfire 5.0:
1. Can you have more than one workspace? If so, can you move from one workspace to another freely while working in Pro-E?
2. Is the server's file storage area still referred to as "Commonspace"?
3. Does "Commonspace" still have project folders?
4. Can you launch Pro-E with "No Workspace"?
5. In WF 2.0 occasionally when pro-e forces a regen some of our restricted parts (usually library parts) would indicate they were changed unintentionally. This would require us to have to do an update to parts that we had not desired to change before we could check in our design. Is this problem fixed in WF 5.0?
Thanks,
SrG.

 

[looslib]

What data manager and version are you going to be using with Wildfire5?
From your question, I would assume that you will be migrating to a Windchill-based solution.

1) You can only have 1 active workspace at a time, but you can have multiple workspaces on your computer.
4) You can launch Wildfire without a workspace, just disconnect the server from Wildfire.

Questions 2.3 & 5, depend on the data manager.


"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

 

[SrGilberto]

Oh, yeah. We are migrating to Windchill as an interprise data management solution.

Thanks,
SrG.

 

[looslib]

Which Windchill application, Intralink 9.1 or PDMLink 9.1?

PDMLink uses containers and libraries which are like Intralink 3.x commonspace folders. You can create sub-folders to control looking at too many parts when browsing the structure. New parts need to be told which sub-folder they will reside in when they are checked-in.

In Windchill, you download the Library components a second time to update them to ehat is in the read-only Library BEFORE you do your check-in. This way the system thinks that all of your Library parts have not been changed by Wildfire when working on your project.


"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli