Article - CS222541

"Updating LWC base definition data" returns "The definition classname of an existing attribute "instance" can not be changed" in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 19-Jul-2018   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 10.2 to 11.0

Description

  • UpgradeManagerLog4j.log contains:
    • Updating LWC base definition data in 10.2 M020. started
      ERROR [UpgradeEventFirer] com.ptc.windchill.upgrade.logging.UpgradeFrameworkLogger - Message: Error in method server code:
      java.lang.Exception: Exception of type 'java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException' was generated on the server with message 'null'
  • MethodServer-log4j.log contains:
    • com.ptc.core.lwc.server.TypeDefinitionLoader wcadmin - updateExistingAttAtts: The definition classname of an existing attribute "instance" can not be changed from "com.ptc.core.lwc.server.LWCAttributeSetAttDefinition" to "com.ptc.core.lwc.server.LWCNonPersistedAttDefinition"!
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