In Windchill Visualization Services (WVS) we can prohibit publishing of individual objects but out-of-the-box there is no way to filter out specific file types (MFG, IDX, CATPART, etc). If you check in a CAD Document or Document to Windchill it will be considered as an EPM Document or WT Document and will be scheduled for publishing regardless of WVS' ability to actually publish the content.
We don't always want to limit publishing by file type. We sometimes use semi-intelligent naming conventions to identify file sub-types. For example, some companies include adding 'ESR' to the file name to identify external simplified reps. All the out-of-the-box ECAD template models fail publishing and have to be prohibitied one at a time even though all begin with "ECAD".
The current limited functionality results in a lot of publishing failures, erroneous/useless publishing statistics and overloaded/unstable publishing queues. It unnecessarily adds to the already overwhelming WVS maintenance and monitoring effort.
These situations can be resolved by PTC enhancing the current Prohibit Publishing functionality to accept regular expression matching (e.g. search rules) for Name, Number, and/or File Name. For example, if the Number includes '.MFG' then prohibit publishing.
Today the only workaround is to write and maintain a WVS customization to exclude non-publishable types. As far as I know there is no way to prohibit publishing by regular expression name/number/file name matching.
