You can create replication schedules to ensure that replication takes place at regular intervals. If you need to perform replication to address a specific need, you can also create a replication schedule that runs only once. Each replication schedule identifies the vault that will be replicated, the time that replication will occur, and whether the job will take place once or on a regular schedule. For jobs that occur on a regular schedule, you specify how frequently revaulting will occur (for example, weekly or monthly). Replication schedules are maintained on the master site.

Replication schedules are independent of each other. For example, you can force a replication to happen sooner than it was originally scheduled to happen by creating an additional replication schedule that happens immediately and occurs only once.

The master site contains information about the files that exist on the remote site, and copy of content from master site to remote site occurs only once unless replication is reset. Each Windchill user can specify a preferred site from which to attempt downloading replicated data. If the data requested does not exist at the preferred site, the data is downloaded from another site. If data is not available at a remote site, it is because the rules controlling content for the vault do not include the data or the data has not yet been replicated to the remote site.