Hi Chris,
thanks for your answer!
I assume is not the best idea to directly manipulate the XML in the content property.
I think a solution based on your Content Generator sample is maybe the better approach. As far as I understood the blog post, the Content Generator can work with items that already exists in the data base. I assume this should theoretically work for federated data too.
One option is maybe that TechDocs get the data on demand via the REST API. So the 3rd party software doesn´t have to write anything into the Aras db.
Or we use a separate ItemType as data layer that the 3rd party software can easy access and update. This is presumably better regarding performance and data integrity.
Well, we will see which one works best for our current use case.
I'm interested in how these Tech Docs relate to the MPP Solution ProcessPlan. It seems when you create a ProcessPlan in the Process Plan editor it is using a special xml schema called MPP-Standard to render out operations, steps, tools, machines and resources. I want to know if a ProcessPlan can be constructed programmatically based off of another ProcessPlan (serving as a template) and have the rendered HTML have the ability to accept user input (that is pre-filtered to only accept specific item types from the user). Any thoughts on this scenario?
