Service Publishing Rules
Service Publishing Rules Overview
WVS uses publishing rules to control how published output is produced. You must be experienced in writing WVS publishing rules and knowledgeable about the information in
WVS Publish Rules.
WVS publishing rules must be set up on Windchill PDMLink so users can choose a publishing rule and WVS can send the associated publish parameters to Arbortext Publishing Engine. Publishing rules must have a clear name and description to distinguish them to the user. When a publishing rule is selected, its contents are transformed into an XML file that WVS sends to Arbortext Publishing Engine. The publishing parameters are put into a pubspec.xml file in the payload. There is a pubspec.xml file in the Service application containing default values for parameters not specified in the file sent from WVS. You can check this file:
application\com.ptc.arbortext.service\lib\pubspec.xml
For more information on configuring the Service Worker and, refer to
Service Worker and Publishing and
Service Publishing Rules for WVS.
Service Worker Parameters
The Service (or SIS) Worker parameters control the publishing process. Worker parameters are specified in the publishing rule using the following form:
<worker name="namespace/parameter">value</worker>
A worker parameter specification is part of a param-set which is passed to WVS when publishing processing begins. For Windchill Service Information Manager publishing, you can target a parameter to a specific system or subsystem used by the publishing process.
The Service Worker parameters are documented in
Service Worker Parameters.
Report Trace Information on Arbortext Publishing Engine
The option parameter type can specify an ACL debug parameter that reports trace information. For example:
com.ptc.arbortext.pe/option:debug
In a publishing rule, the specification could look like the following:
<worker name="com.ptc.arbortext.pe/option:debug">9.1</worker>
<worker name="com.ptc.arbortext.pe/artifactDirectory">
D:\ptc\bundle_debug</worker>
The pe/option:debug parameter runs on Arbortext Publishing Engine. If Arbortext Publishing Engine is configured to save intermediate files in the Transaction Archive, the trace report is listed in the zip archive as the debug option trace file with a content type of text/plain. If the artifactsDirectory is specified, the trace file is stored there, and it has the form trace_timestamp.log. If both are specified, the trace report is placed in both locations.
Using Custom Java Classes
To register a post-conversion delegate, the publishing rules must use the PostConvertDelegate Java class.
For more information on these Java classes and others, see
Advanced Customization of Publishing.