When the Worker Agent sends a request to the worker, it has no way of determining the status of the job. Therefore, the Worker Agent waits for a specified period of time. In the wvs.properties file, the following properties define timeout values for publishing:

These properties specify the number of seconds that the Worker Agent waits when the publisher is processing a single component, assembly, or drawing, respectively. Adjust these values to the needs of your site, so that they process the largest data sets. If the values are too small, errors are displayed, and no viewable data is created.

There are several ways in which the publishing of viewable CAD data can be automated. A READY_TO_PUBLISH event is emitted when a document is checked in from a Workgroup Manager, or a gateway. If the following property is set to true in the wvs.properties file, this event results in submission of a publish job:

It is also possible to run WVS scheduler jobs to run container specific queries and create publish jobs for the returned objects. This is achieved using the WVS Job Scheduler Administration tool, where one can select an out-of-the-box Publish Job scheduler method to execute at a certain time, optionally repeated, on the current context. Alternatively, one can opt to write a custom publish job scheduler method, that performs the specific query and publish operation your business requires. Refer to WVS Job Scheduler Administration for more information.