Teamcenter Rich Client : Basic Guidelines

Rich Client customization :You just need to follow the client customization programmers guide PDF .It's good and has everything for basic start.

Still I will mention few things for setup.

Basic tasks for rich client customization :

- Install Eclipse

- Make sure eclipse has plugin Devlopement plugin installed

- To start customization you need to set FMS_HOME,JAVA_HOME,JRE_HOME,portal path,and set path variable for the same and TAO must be running
for this you can create  file which has all this setting and call to launch eclipse or set in file which you think is suitable

set FMS_HOME=TC_ROOT\tccs

set JAVA_HOME=jre-install-directory

set JRE_HOME=jre-install-directory

set CLASSPATH=TC_ROOT\portal

set PATH=%FMS_HOME%\bin;%FMS_HOME%\lib;TC_ROOT\portal;%PATH%

start "TAO ImR" /min cmd /c "TC_ROOT\iiopservers\start_imr.bat"

Eclipse-install-directory\eclipse.exe -vm jdk-install-directory\bin\javaw

- Once you launch eclipse
  set the project preferences in eclipse using wiindow->preference    as mentioned in the guide
set Installed JRE in preference window
set Target Platform in preference window

- Run the rich client from Eclipse follow guide for the same (Run->   Debug Configurations create the configuration)

- You must learn plugin development in eclipse a basic one.

- Once you create the project (File->New Project  and select Plug-in   Project in dialog ) in eclipse using plugin development(Create a    plug-in using one of the templates ).

- Export plugin

- Put plugin in portal folder of TC_ROOT

- Before running the rich client to verify the customization, run the TC_ROOT\portal\registry\genregxml file to register the plug-in with the rich client, and clear the rich client cache.

- Run the portal.bat file  with -clean argument to launch the rich client to verify that your customization appear.

- If your customizations still do not appear, to clear cache, delete the Teamcenter
subdirectory in the user’s home directory on the client. This directory is
automatically created again when the user starts the rich client. This directory
usually contains RAC and TAO subdirectories.

Go for the client customization guide PDF and try few examples