Procedure – Invoking Publishing from Custom Code/Workflow

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This section details how to use the following supported APIs and classes:

• doPublish from Publisher class – see Simple Publish

• PublisherAction class for advanced use of doPublish – see Advanced Publish

To invoke publishing from custom code or from an Expression Robot in a Workflow the key method to understand and use is the supported doPublish method in the com.ptc.wvs.common.ui.Publisher class.

public boolean doPublish (boolean viewableLink,
boolean forceRepublish,
String objectReference,
ConfigSpec configSpec,
ConfigSpec partConfigSpec,
boolean defaultRep,
String repName,
String repDescription,
int structureType,
String actionString,
int jobSource)

For more details on this method and it’s parameters, see the JavaDoc in <Windchill>\codebase\wt\clients\library\api\index.html.