I'm not going to start you off with some waste-of-time "Hello World!" app.  We are going to go straight into making useful code. 

Creating a listener gives you the ability to automate actions.  Let's say you wanted to kickoff another piece of code whenever a user created a new revision.  You could either write something that queries for new revisions every so often (boring) or make a listener to runs that code on the fly.  Let's create our first listener!

This guide will walk you through getting Eclipse IDE setup with Windchill.  This allows you to easily make customizations to Windchill in a streamlined fashion.

​Windchill may be installed but there are still some recommended things you need to do before you carry on with your business configurations.  Let's take a look.

Windchill is now installed but you are seeing all of these Java apps running on your taskbar.  We need to install Windchill, Apache, and Solr services in order to clear these up.

In Part 3, we installed Windchill with the Solr Client.  The last required piece for Solr to work is the Solr Server.  For Part 4, we are going to install it.

You are finally ready to install Windchill... if you've successfully completed Part 1 and Part 2.  For Part 3, we are going to walk through the Windchill installation process.

For Part 2, we are going to walk through installing and configuring Amazon Corretto (Java), OpenDJ (LDAP), and SQL Server (Database).

For this new series of posts, I am going to show you how to install the latest Windchill version (13 as of this article's release).  I will use Windows Server 2022, SQL Server 2022, and Amazon Corretto 17.

The drag and drop interface is really useful for visualizing your workflows but you can't do everything without writing some code.  In Part 2, we are tasked with modifying the OOTB Promotion Request Approval Process workflow to require approvals based on the file types attached to the Promotion Request.

Windchill Admins and Customizers,

It is finally your turn to learn how to work with Windchill Workflows!  This series will shed light on the mysterious ways that workflows work and how you can manipulate them to do just about anything you want with the Windchill API and a little Java grease.  I know trying to learn this stuff has always been a big pain to many people but don't worry!  I will make it so easy that you will be impressing your boss in no time!

In Part 1, we will go over the basics of what a workflow is and do some high level manipulation via the Workflow Administration GUI.  You don't need to know how to write code....yet...