Windchill Archive - Secure Data Management for Efficient Product Lifecycle Management
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Windchill® Archive Module
Archive and restore your Pro/INTRALINK® 8.0 and Windchill 8.0 data
Windchill Archive is the perfect add-on module
for Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 and Windchill 8.0 users
who want to quickly extract and restore product
information.
The optional Windchill Archive module delivers new capabilities for
collecting, storing and restoring information managed within
Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 and Windchill systems. Now, manufacturers can
have a long-term storage and retrieval solution for their PTC Windchill-
based applications. Plus, administrators can use the search tools to
locate archived information and restore the data when needed.
Purge Benefits
• Reduce “clutter” of unnecessary data in system
• Improve system performance
Windchill Archive works with all Windchill-based solutions (including
• Drive compliance with industry regulations and corporate Pro/INTRALINK 8.0) providing a means to extract and restore product information.
policies pertaining to data retention
Purge, Archive and Restore Manager
• Provides a central dashboard for purge and archive tasks,
and management
• Enable users to create purge jobs to permanently remove data
and create an archive of data to be restored at a later time.
• List purge and archive jobs, along with their status
• Provide access to managing queries for archive and purge
• Enjoy powerful usability tools:
—Table Preferences Wizard for sorting and field display options
—View chooser for filtering (e.g., Archive jobs only, Restore job
only, etc.)
The Purge, Archive and Restore Manager provides a central dashboard for
purge and archive tasks, and management.
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Collection Criteria for Archive and Purge
• Administrators can define and save collection criteria
• Collection criteria used for generating the object lists for purging
and archiving
• Same criteria may be used for both archive and purge
• Three-step “Create Query” wizard simplifies collection
criteria creation:
1. Specify Query Details
2. Specify Scope for Criteria, such as which “contexts” to
include (Products, Libraries, Projects, Domains)
3. Specify Selection Criteria,   including:

 Object Type = EPMDocument (CADDocuments) The Purge and Archive Wizard makes it easy to create new purge and archive jobs.

 Iteration = All but last 2

 Version = All but latest • Minimizes purge conflicts and facilitates restoring archives:
• Selection criteria can include the following types of data: —Purge will not remove the last iteration of any version of a Master
—Object type (documents, parts and CAD documents) —When an object is purged, the links from that object to other
objects are also removed
—Lifecycle state
• The dependencies of archived objects are also included in the
—Version at Maturity
archive, recursively
—Version
• Archive information is indexed for searching
—Iteration
• Support for restore of entire archives only 
—View
• Support for commercial mass storage devices
—Creator
• Available to site and organization administrators with read permission 
—Created
Platform Support
• Administrators can review the affected contexts and the collection
• Pro/INTRALINK 8.0
criteria in each query
• Windchill PDMLink 8.0
Purge and Archive Job Wizard
• Windchill ProjectLink 8.0
• Facilitates the creation of new purge and archive jobs
• Windchill Foundation
• Enables administrators to specify details about a new job, including
whether to archive the data prior to purging • Windchill PDM 8.0
• Allows administrators, when archiving data, to specify options to be • Windchill PDM 8.0 and Windchill ProjectLink 8.0 Integral Solution
included in the archive. Options include:
• Windchill PDMLink 8.0 and Windchill ProjectLink 8.0
—Versions and Iterations - either the latest iterations of the latest Integral Solution
version or the latest iterations of all versions
More Information
—CAD Dependents - either required dependencies only, or all
To learn more about the Windchill Archive Module, visit www.ptc.com,
dependencies
or contact your nearby PTC representative.
• Provides a preview of the purge list generated by object selection
criteria prior to starting an Archive and/or Purge job
General Capabilities Copyright © 2006, Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC)—All rights reserved under copyright laws of
• Supports objects such as ‘WTDocuments’, ‘WTParts’ and the United States and other countries. Information described herein is based upon a single user experience.
It is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as
‘EPMDocuments’ a guarantee or commitment by PTC. PTC, the PTC Logo, Pro/ENGINEER, Wildfire and all PTC product names
and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of PTC and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and
• Enables archiving of viewables and markups in other countries.
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