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Managing Visualization Services (WVS) Publishing queues in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 07-Oct-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill Service Information Manager 10.0 to 13.1
  • Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 13.1
  • Windchill ProjectLink 9.1 to 13.1
  • Pro/INTRALINK 8.x + 9.1 to 12.0
  • Windchill PDM Essentials 10.1 to 12.0
  • PTC Arbortext Content Manager 9.1 to 12.0
  • Windchill Visualization Services (WVS)

Description

  • How to manage the WVS publishing queues
  • How to manage PublisherQueue*
  • How to monitor completed jobs and clear out queues
  • How often should jobs be cleared from the completed Total Entries in PublisherQueue#?
  • How to delete large amount of publish jobs from Visualization Queue
  • How to delete PublisherQueue related queue entries using SQL
  • What are the various Windchill Queue States and their implications to Visualization
  • Visualization Queues are filled with many thousands entries, which need to be cleared, what commands can be used
  • Need assistance clearing millions of publish jobs for documents (both CAD Documents and WTDocuments) in the WVS Publisher Queues
  • Publishing queue is hung
  • Publishing of a document is in READY state as per Windchill PDMLink's WVS Job Monitor and it does not proceed with EXECUTING or any other state, including COMPLETED
  • How to stop large scheduled WVS job from Visualization Queue
  • Background method server keep dying every 11 minutes because of heavy publishing entries
  • Deletion of completed/successful queue entries from queue management for publishers queues

  • Wanted assistance in creation of utility for getting this work done automatically as users have thousands of completed jobs in queue which needs to be removed
  • Unable to delete stuck publisher process queue entry as action drop menu shows grayed out and shows the message No Action to Display 
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