Product library custom steps and tokens

The product library custom steps and tokens can be used to leverage the file management capabilities of the product library as part of a workflow. These steps and tokens allow you to identify and associate a product library product with a job, check out the product, work with the product to perform data edits or cartographic updates, and check the product back in.

Product library custom steps

The product library custom steps are included in the Production Mapping steps library. The steps, a basic description, and return codes are outlined in the table below.

See Creating step types for general information on configuring step types.

Step name	Prog ID	Description	Return codes
Identify Product	ProductionMappingSteps.IdentifyProduct	Associates a product library product with a job. The Check Out and Check In steps perform operations based on this association.	0—Success 1—Failure
Check Out	ProductionMappingSteps.CheckOutProduct	Checks out the product associated with the job.	0—Success 1—Failure
Check In	ProductionMappingSteps.CheckInProduct	Checks in the product associated with the job.	0—Success 1—Failure

The product library tokens

Two additional tokens are available when working with the product library custom steps.

See the Using tokens topic for general information on working with tokens.

Parser	Token	Description	Example input	Example output
Product Library	[PL:TOKEN_MXD_NAME]	Name of the map document associated with the job	[PL:TOKEN_MXD_NAME]	My Map
Product Library	[PL:TOKEN_MXD_LOCATION]	The checkout location for the product associated with the job	[PL:TOKEN_MXD_LOCATION]	C:\Data