Article - CS229067
How to filter publishing of EPMDocuments upon check-in using a custom method in Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 11-Aug-2025
Applies To
- Windchill PDMLink 12.0.2.0 to 12.1
- Visualization Services (WVS)
Description
- Once publishing is configured for an Authoring Application (i.e. Creo Parametric), publishing will occur out-of-the-box for all EPMDocuments of that Authoring Application upon the Ready to Publish event, fired by the EPM client once check-in has completed
- Sometimes, there are business reasons for filtering out some EPMDocuments from publishing based on some criteria. For example, a certain lifecycle state, EPMDocumentType, EPMDocSubType, etc
- Windchill Visualization Services has a code hook available where you can plug in code to filter on such criteria
- This article provides an example customization that will enable you to do custom filtering of the EPMDocuments that will be published as a result of a Ready to Publish event
- How to skip publishing of EPMDocuments from a specific context/product
- Is there a way, by context, to republish all the latest EPMDocuments of type drawing only
- How to Prevent ECAD Document files from being published at Check-in
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