Very similar to filtering publishing for EPMDocuments, there is a means for filtering for WTDocument publishing as well. For example, you may want to filter based on specific filenames, lifecycle state, container, etc. If the system has a worker configured for publishing specific WTDocument content, a custom filter method can be used to keep certain content from being published.

In a custom class you can define a method with the following signature:

You can use whatever name you want in place of docFilterMethod. Make sure the class that contains your custom method is accessible in the Windchill codebase (i.e. ext.wvs.MyFilterMethods). Notice that this method differs from the EPMDocument filter method signature by including ContentItem as a parameter. This method is called for each ContentItem associated to the WTDocument on check-in. It is also called for uploads. For example if you had a WTDocument with .doc file as primary content and a .xls file as secondary content, this method would be called twice; once with each content item (pending a worker was associated to both types of content).

The next step is to add the class and method to wvs.properties.xconf. The following property is empty out-of-the-box. Update it to include your class and filter method in the format “class/method”.

Once you make the change use the xconfmanager to propagate the changes to wvs.properties.

Every time a check-in or upload occurs where publishing of WTDocument content would normally occur, this method will now be invoked. If the method returns Boolean.TRUE publishing will be attempted for the specific WTDocument ContentItem. If the method returns Boolean.FALSE, publishing will not be attempted.

The following example shows how to filter if the WTDocument’s description is “Do Not Publish”, or if the filename of the content starts with “donotpublish”.