Getting the RDS for a Publication Structure in Windchill

[Elizabeth Fraley]

These are the instructions for getting the RDS (resolved document for styler) out of the publishing structure. The general idea is that if you have the Payload, you can open the document from the payload in Editor and then create the RDS. Here is the outline of the process:

1. Do a publish from Windchill using PE
2. Go to the Transaction archive and download the Payload (instructions at the bottom)
3. Unzip the Payload
4. Open the Publication structure document in Styler and do File->Publish to PDF (The Pub Structure document will have a name like 0000000241.xml)
5. Notice that a techinfomap xml document was created alongside the .pdf
6. Open the techinfomap document in Styler
7. Do Edit->Edit Resolved Document->For Styling

In addition, you just the e3config.xml setting that will keep the transaction archive for successful jobs. Normally it only keeps the archive for failing jobs.

<Parameter name="com.arbortext.e3.transactionArchive.selector" value="all" />

How to get the Payload

The Transaction Archive is on the PE home page

Since you want to get a transaction archive for a successful job, you will need to change an e3config.xml setting:

<!-- This parameter specifies which kinds of transactions are stored in the -->

<!-- transaction archive after completion. Legal values are "none" -->

<!-- (archive no transactions), "error" (archive transactions that fail), -->

<!-- "log" (archive transactions that fail and transactions -->

<!-- that have associated application log entries or intermediate files) -->

<!-- and "all". -->

<Parameter name="com.arbortext.e3.transactionArchive.selector" value="all" />

This will cause all jobs to be saved. Then you can open the Transaction Archive and download the request payload:

You will get a file called rqbody.dat. Just change it to be rqbody.zip and you can open it like a .zip file.

There is an alternative method for getting the payload on the Windchill side.  Use the payloadCache publishing parameter to have the payload stored on a folder on the Windchill server. https://support.ptc.com/help/windchill/r13.0.1.0/en/#page/Windchill_Help_Center/sim_installconfig/sis7009.html

How to find the RDS inside the Payload

Prerequisite:

Make sure you have the service application installed in your Editor/Styler installation.

Inside the payload, you’ll find an SM****.xml file. That’s the Publishing Structure in XML.

Steps:

1. Unzip the Payload (rqbody_XXX.dat)
2. Open the Publication structure document in Styler and do File->Publish to PDF  (The Pub Structure document will have a name SMXXXXXXXX.xml)
   1. If you see a stylesheet association error, Fix the Stylesheet Association Error (below) before going to step 3.
3. While the Publish dialog is visible, open the windows folder where the .xml file was.
4. Notice that a techinfomap xml document was created alongside the .xml  In this case it is called SMXXXXXXXX-techinfomap.xml
5. Copy this file because it will get cleaned up by Styler
6. Cancel out of the Publish dialog
7. Open the copied techinfomap document in Styler
8. Do Edit->Edit Resolved Document->For Styling

Where to install the Service Application

This is a prerequisite for working with payload-created, publication structures in Arbortext Styler. You need the DTD for the service application. It comes with PE. You can find it in application/com.ptc.arbortext.service

Put this entire folder in the application folder in the Arbortext Editor install tree:

How to Fix the Stylesheet Association Error in the Publication Structure document

If you see the following error window, you will need to edit the pubspec.xml to comment out the stylesheet association parameter:

Steps to fix:

1. Open the pubspec.xml
2. Comment out the Parameter token=”stylesheet” markup

Now you should be able to continue and publish theSM****.xml file.

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