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Hi all,
I am wondering if there is a service documentation about the Windchill WS tasks existing anywhere. To be more clear, I am talking about the tasks located under <Windchill>/tasks/com/ptc/windchill/ws.
Let's have a look at the navigate.xml (I've attached one for quick overview). I managed to navigate through the children of a any object type using this task. But I am always just using the following parameters:
Besides the fact that I have to call the operation twice to get the links and the linked objects (otherSide - true or false), it is working well. If I have a look at the parameter description, I can see that there are much more available parameters than I am using. So I am wondering if anybody can explain me the usage of the other parameter, or even better, has an example which uses them.
Quick Overview of available parameters:
@param string baseUfid UFID of object from which navigation will start
@param string associationTypeIdentifier Type of link to be navigated
@param string targetRoleName Name of role played by other-side objects
@param string[] targetTypes Types of objects to be returned, null to return all available types
@param boolean otherSide true to return other-side objects, false to return link objects
@param boolean autoNavigate true to enable application of config specs, automatic navigation from master objects to iterations, and automatic retrieval of remotely linked objects
@param string configSpecType null if no config spec requested
@param com.ptc.windchill.ws.Property[] configSpecParams Parameters of the specified config spec, if any
@param string[] propertyNames Names of properties to be returned with the resulting objects
Thanks in advance for any help.
Fabian,
Here is a small description of remaining parameters. Hope it helps.
targetTypes
Allow you to filter returned object types ; for example if you have a document structure containing various soft types, you can keep only those you want
configSpecType
You can set the way you want to navigate the structure (configuration specification); for example by baseline, as-stored or state ; by default you get "latest" iteration of target object
configSpecParams
Bunch of parameters related to configSpecType you previously set ; for example baseline reference
propertyNames
You can select properties returned for target objects instead of having all defaults ; if you just need number or state, it will speed up your search and reduced memory needs