Control characteristics created within Windchill MPMLink and associated to a part (or to a manufacturing object such as a process plan or an operation) may be published to a distribution target. A certain attribute on the distribution target determines whether or not control characteristics associated to a part (or to a process plan) would be published. For example, with the attribute Publish Control Characteristics when Publishing a Part set to Yes, control characteristics associated to a part would be rendered and sent with the ESI response. Likewise, control characteristics associated to a process plan (or to an operation) would be published when the attribute Publish Control Characteristics when Publishing a Process Plan has a value of Yes. Both these attributes have a value of No by default.

The following attributes are passed:

The attribute Model Item Reference holds a reference to the model item that is associated to the control characteristic being published.

The following are some of the model item attributes that are passed from Windchill PDMLink to the distribution target:

Several other attributes may get passed as well, depending on the type of model item.

The attribute Distribution Targets (in the elements Destination and TargetID that appear in the ESI response) identifies the distribution target that ERP Connector would publish the control characteristics and the associated model items to.