About Service Structures
Windchill Service Information Manager uses service structures called information structures and publication structures to organize service information in a product or library:
• The information structure is an organized hierarchy of operating and service information representing configurations of a product that are manufactured and sold to customers. A product or library can have multiple information structures, with one of them designated as the primary.
• The publication structure defines how information within the information structures, libraries, or other sources, is organized for publishing. Authors and publication managers can use the publication structure to create a publication. A product or library can have multiple publication structures.
A publication structure enables you to assemble service content stored in Windchill or associated with an information structure into a document. When the content is assembled in a publication structure, you can publish a representation to PDF or a bundle. Publication structures can be nested.