We have created a simple plugin to add Windchill in the Quick Search dropdown menu of Firefox. This way, we can search in Windchill from Firefox directly, without having to browse to the search page of PDMLink or ProjectLink.

For this, we only have to create an XML file and save it in <FIREFOX_INSTALL_DIR>/searchplugins folder, like the one you can download here (PDMLink.xml).

The only necessary change to use it is to replace WINDCHILL_SERVER with the name of your PDMLink / ProjectLink server.

You have more information available about this in the Mozilla Developer Center, where you can find information about how to change the icon for the search item too.

It has been tested with Firefox 2.x and PDMLink / ProjetLink 8.0.