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March 3, 2023
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Creating rule-based publishing jobs for lots of items

  • March 3, 2023
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Hello,

we are thinking about activating positioning assemblies. For that, we need to have representations for all items in our system.

Anyhow, we have lots of items  without a representation (couple of thousands), especially vendor components.

Is there a simple way of creating (rule-based) publishing jobs for these items?

 

Best regards

Martin

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23-Emerald IV
March 3, 2023

Windchill has the ability to create publish jobs that automatically publish based on certain criteria.  One of those criteria are objects with no representation.  Take a look at these sections:

https://support.ptc.com/help/windchill/r12.1.2.0/en/?_gl=1*u26zwc*_ga*NjEzMTM3MzcwLjE2NTg1MTMyMDg.*_ga_1QBT6P6HR1*MTY3Nzg1NTU5MS4xNTMuMS4xNjc3ODU1Njk0LjAuMC4w#page/Windchill_Help_Center/WVSPrintManagement/WVSAdminJobSchedule.html#

 

https://support.ptc.com/help/windchill/r12.1.2.0/en/?_gl=1*u26zwc*_ga*NjEzMTM3MzcwLjE2NTg1MTMyMDg.*_ga_1QBT6P6HR1*MTY3Nzg1NTU5MS4xNTMuMS4xNjc3ODU1Njk0LjAuMC4w#page/Windchill_Help_Center/WVSPrintManagement/WVSAdminJobSchedulerFilters.html#

 

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    MH_1046367610-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    March 3, 2023

    This goes definitely in the right direction but is still very general. The approach described above will create representations for all CAD data (+pre-defined filter) without any chance of having prio-settings, right? Like doing vendorcomponents first. Right?

     

    But we need to discuss it. At last we need representations for all items.

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    TomU23-Emerald IV
    23-Emerald IV
    March 3, 2023

    Depends how your data is segmented.  Jobs can be started from "Site, Organizations, Projects, Products, or Libraries", and the job only affects those objects from where the job was started.  If vendor components are in a specific product or library, you could just choose to create a job for that one context.

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      23-Emerald IV
      TomU23-Emerald IV
      23-Emerald IV
      March 3, 2023

      Another handy tool is the command line utility PublishUtil which will publish a list of objects from a CSV file.  It's pretty easy to query the database and get a list of specific objects to publish (or republish).  Add their idA2A2 values to a CSV and then feed them into this utility.  (No server restart is required to install this utility.)

       

      https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS211115

       

      Focus on the PublishEPMDocWithCSVFile filter.

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        MH_1046367610-MarbleAuthor
        10-Marble
        March 3, 2023

        Thanks, I'll have a deeper look into this next week!

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