Defining a New Action

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Defining a New Action

Actions in the system are uniquely identified by the name of the action and the object type. They should be defined in an XML file that follows the structure based on codebase/config/actions/actions.dtd.

Here is an example of an action definition for the New Document window.

<objecttype name="document" class="wt.doc.WTDocument"
resourceBundle="com.ptc.windchill.enterprise.doc.documentResource">
<action name="create" uicomponent="CREATE_DOC" dtiUpload="true">
<command
class="com.ptc.windchill.enterprise.doc.forms.CreateDocFormProcessor"
method="execute" windowType="popup" onClick="validateCreateLocation(event)"/>
<includeFilter name="projectM4D" />
<nonSupportedTypes value="wt.part.WTPart"/>
<supportedTypes value="wt.doc.WTDocument"/>
</action>
</objecttype>