Some updates on this topic....am still researching questions 1 & 2, which are somewhat related and are not identifiable from the current documentation or online articles. To some degree the responses will be use case specific and needs some thinking through in terms of what will publish, what won't and/or why.
For question 3 and it's follow-on, here's some additional guidance:
3. If positioning assemblies are used with "Latest" configuration specification does that mean that when you look at the representation of an older iteration you will see the structure of the old assembly but the latest representation of the components?
- Yes. When a Positioning Assembly branch-link is expanded in Creo View, WVS uses an algorithm that attempts to determine the most relevant sub-assembly/component Representation to use and will effectively incorporate the default derived Representation from the Latest version/iternation of the referenced EPMDocument.
Does this mean that non latest representations serve no purpose if you use latest as the configuration specification?
A. The Positioning Assembly concept is designed to address problems relating to publishing performance for the largest unchanging top-level assembly structures, to remove the need to constantly republish them in order to see the latest Representation of them. It is not designed or able to provide the exact structure Representation in all cases, in these cases, full geometry publishing is required.
Regards,
-Barton