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kirkwemple11-Garnet
11-Garnet
February 26, 2024
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Disable Publishing based on State

  • February 26, 2024
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Is it possible to prevent publishing of Windchill parts, documents, or CAD based on state (e.g. disallow any Windchill object from being published if it is moved to Discontinued state via ECN)?

 

--Kirk Wemple

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SWeiler_994026116-Pearl
16-Pearl
February 26, 2024

You can use Publish rules to control these types of things.

https://support.ptc.com/help/windchill/plus/r12.0.2.0/en/index.html#page/Windchill_Help_Center%2FWVSPublishRulesUsePubRules.html%23

 

Set a rule to not publish for the state of "Discontinued" such as:

 

<not>
<attribute name="epmdoc_lifeCycleState" value="Discontinued" />
</not>

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    kirkwemple11-GarnetAuthor
    11-Garnet
    February 28, 2024

    Thanks for info.

    Additional question -- is there a method to have publishing of Discontinued objects assigned a priority of L?

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    18-Opal
    d_graham18-Opal
    18-Opal
    February 28, 2024

    The short answer is YES.

    There’s a properly that points to a method that returns a boolean.

    You can point the property to any method. The method MUST return a boolean.

    So you need a simple method that gets the state of the object. If the state is “Discontinued” the method returns false and the object it not published. Otherwise return true.

    Your condition of returning true or false based on the state is about as simple as anything gets.

    Should be no problem to implement this in a few minutes.

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