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.

Example of a Workflow Manager workflow that uses the product library custom steps

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


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