Release Toggles
Service Publishing allows you to publish representations of service structures to different versions of Arbortext Content Delivery by setting an appropriate release toggle.
Release toggle is a mechanism that is used to control the visibility of bundle features, depending on the versions of Arbortext Content Delivery that are supported with a Windchill Service Information Manager release. For more information on compatibility of release toggle values, see PTC Service and Parts Information Solution Compatibility available on the PTC Technical Support web page.
Depending on the versions of Arbortext Content Delivery release that are supported with a particular Windchill Service Information Manager release, you can configure the value of release toggle using the com.ptc.arbortext.windchill.publisher.toggle.release property in the publishing.wt.properties.xconf file. The publishing.wt.properties.xconf file is located at <Windchill>\codebase\com\ptc\arbortext\windchill\publisher\xconf. The default value of a release toggle, for a Windchill Service Information Manager release, is provided by PTC.
For example, the checksum feature that was introduced in Windchill release 11.1 F000 is supported by Arbortext Content Delivery 7.1 by default. To publish a representation of a service structure to Arbortext Content Delivery 6.5, which does not support the checksum feature, set the value of release toggle to InS6.5. When you set the release toggle to InS6.5, the checksum feature is excluded during the bundle publishing process.
You can also publish the structures of a context to different Arbortext Content Delivery versions by using the Publishing Release Toggle preference on the Windchill server. Navigate to > > > > to specify a value of release toggle. If the value of release toggle is not specified, the value defaults to the com.ptc.arbortext.windchill.publisher.toggle.release.
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This preference can be managed only by an administrator of the context.
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The following table provides information about the release toggles available in Windchill Service Information Manager.
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Name
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Added Arbortext Content Delivery Release
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Description
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USECHECKSUM
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7.1
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A checksum attribute replaces the SIM.lastUpdated and SIM.lastUpdatedMeta attributes in the bundle artifacts. If there is a change in the checksum attribute, the incremental publishing logic processes the object as a modified object. If this toggle is set to true, the SIM.lastUpdated, SIM.lastUpdatedSrc and SIM.lastUpdateMeta attributes are not published.
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INCLUDE_DEFAULT_CLASSIFICATION
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6.4
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Includes all classification attributes with default or populated values in referencedParts.xml
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USE_APEX_SERVICE_EFFECTIVITY
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6.4
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Publishes Service Effectivity in APEX format.
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