You can publish an operation either by changing the life cycle state of the operation specified in the Operation Configuration Specification States preference, or in association with a change notice or a promotion request.

An operation typically consists of the following:

Windchill ESI services render an operation and its associated objects using certain renderers, all of which extend the abstract base class BasicESIRenderer. In turn, this class implements the only renderer interface provided by Windchill ESI services, viz., ESIRenderer. The relevant classes are described in the Operation Classes section of this document.