Fishbowl Solutions Releases Pubschedule 2.0

By DE Editors

Fishbowl Solutions, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN), a software, services, and consulting company delivering solutions for the PTC Product Development System, has released pubSchedule 2.0, an out-of-the-box solution for Windchill PDMLink 8.0 + and Windchill Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 +.

Fishbowl Solutions pubSchedule 2.0 enhances the standard Windchill options for publishing viewables of Pro/ENGINEER product data in PDMLink and Pro/INTRALINK. pubSchedule will allow users to define a subset of items to be published in batch publish mode. The solution allows users to set publishing options like "Publish Latest Released" to lessen the impact on their system.

Currently, there are only three options for publishing viewables — publish all, publish latest or publish nothing. Because none of these options is what most users really need, many have found the best work-around is to turn off the batch publish feature. With batch publishing off, users must request the viewable they would like published and then wait. Depending on the backlog of viewables that are in queue, the wait time for publishing can vary from days to months.

With pubSchedule users can publish on specific object types, on specific date ranges, and on specific lifecycle states; can publish latest iterations only; publish only objects without representations; limit publishing jobs to a number of days back from when the job is run (new in 2.0); and allows up to five unique publish jobs to be configured and ran (also new in 2.0).

For details, go to Fishbowl Solutions.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.