Post Publishing Rule for only Drawing file.

[klakshminarayan]

Hi All,

I've created a Post Publishing rule to generate a seperate WTDocument where the content is the representation of the EPMDocument. When a drawing file gets published a WTDocument is created with PDF as content. When a 3-D model is published, a WTDocument is created with .OL file as a content.

I'm trying to create a Publishing Rule where a WTDocument is created only for the drawing file. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks,

Kiran Lakshminarayanan

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[tsarspb]

Which Windchill version are you using?

Version-independent, try something like this:

<authoring-application name="PROE">

<param-set name="MySet">
<post-publish ************<=" p=">

*****

*****

</param-set>

<epm-iba iba="”docType”" value="Drawing">
<publish on="checkin" param-set="MySet"/">
<publish on="create-representation" param-set="MySet"/">
<publish on="schedule" param-set="MySet"/">
<publish on="manual-post" param-set="MySet"/">
</epm-iba>

</authoring-application>

Note: docType attribute is exposed as "Document Category" in the Windchill UI on the document details page and for drawings it's value is "Drawing" (Format for formats, Assembly - Other for asms, CAD Part - Other for parts etc.)

Also, starting with Windchill 10.1 publishing rules were enhanced and allow greater flexibility - check the Windchill 10.1 Publish Rules Enhancements in Help Center.

In your case <attribute name="epmdoc_CADName" regex=".*\.drw"/> could be used.

[klakshminarayan]

Dimitry,

Thanks for the information. We are using Windchill 10.0 M040. I tried to add the epm-iba and I get a message "Data marked not to be published. No publishing will take place".

Thanks,

Kiran Lakshminarayanan

[tsarspb]

Yep. This seem to only work for IBA attributes. 😞

Adding an IBA attribute to drawings should work, then. If post-publishing is an important part of the business process, this could be worth it. Or you could already have IBA attributes in drawings - great, then. Just make sure one of them is mandatory and is always designated.

Enabling manual post-publishing could possibly be an option too.

Other than that, I don't see a feasible OOTB way to differentiate drawings and cad parts when post-publishing.