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Marcika10-Marble
10-Marble
September 19, 2017
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How to filter EPM documents (based on type) to be published to ESI distribution targets

  • September 19, 2017
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Hello all,

 

By default, all EPM documents are published via ESI to an ERP system.  

My requirement is to publish to ERP/SAP only EPMDocuments which contain 2D Drawings. 3D drawings must not be published.

The differentiation can be made via the OOTB attribute doctype.

Customizing the ESIResponseMetaInfo.xml for separately for Drawings/Not Drawings is not possible.

I did not found any other OOTB way to configure a filter based on drawing types.

I think this requirement can be done only with customized code.

Anyone of you had a similar problem to solve? Can you give me some hint where to start customization?

Via an opened PTC case (https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/case.jsp?n=13841117) I found out the possibly the ESIEPMDocumentRenderer class must be customized.

 

Thanks,

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Casey_Swain14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
November 9, 2017

Hello,

If you can pass "doctype" in the ESI response, you should be able to filter in Tibco.  We have a filter in place so that only certain document subtypes are added to the CBO and passed to SAP.  Basically, you create a global variable that contains the list of allowable "DocType"s.  Then, in CBO mapping, (Document, for-each and Document Reference Link, for-each), filter the response file based on a match between the global variable values and the "doctype" attribute. 

Please take a look at the attached Tibco screenshot and feel free to followup with any questions.

 

Good Luck,

Casey

 

 

 

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    Marcika10-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    November 14, 2017

    Unfortunatelly we don't use TIBCO as a middle layer, but ActiveMQ and Bizztalk.

    The customization was done by extending ESIBOMRenderer by adding new getEPMDocument and getDocument functions, which after calling their super, will call a custom function to filter out the unwanted Documents and their links from the collenctions.

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