Publish Change Orders

Publication enables you to schedule and publish engineering change orders.

You can publish engineering change orders as an XML package. Use filters to select the type of change data you want to publish, including attachment files.

Note: You can retrieve the publication files from Oracle WebCenter Content programmatically, or by using the File Import and Export option available in Tools of the Navigator.

Here's how you publish an engineering change order:

1. In the Product Development work area, select an engineering change order in the Completed status.
2. Open the change order that you want to publish. Click Actions > Publish. You can also choose the publication action from the Manage Change Orders page.
3. Select the entities that you want to publish in the Change Publication Criteria box. You can choose either some or all the entities from the list.
   • Affected objects
   • Header attachments
   • Affected object redlines only
   • Affected object attachments
   • Affected object structures
   • Affected object AML
   Note: The Include attachment files check box is enabled only when you select an entity that includes attachment.
4. Click Publish. A confirmation box is displayed with the process number.
5. To see the report, click Tasks > View Scheduled Process.
6. Enter the Process Id in the View Scheduled Processes window.
7. Click View Output to download the published engineering change order. The output is available in a zip file format. Click the file to download it.

Note: You can automate the publishing of engineering change orders using SOAP web services. You can also use the Item Publication event - PublicationJobCompleted to determine if a change order is published and automate the additional steps.