Building a custom publishing process

Each output format has a widely customizable publishing process thanks to the post-process plugins system.

There may be two aspects to customizing the publishing process:
  • Customizing the DITA-OT steps via the files in <drive>:\InfoShare<project>\App<project>\Utilities\DITA-OT\<company name>\plugins\. This is described in the Content Manager configuration section of this documentation.
  • Customizing the post-process plugins used for publishing to a specific output format. This is by far the most powerful and flexible publishing customization available.
To perform any post-process plugin customization, adding, removing or modifying plugins:
  • Log in to the Web Client.
  • Access the XML file from Settings > XML Publish Plug-In Settings.
  • Locate the appropriate output format <postprocess> section (e.g. <postprocess ishcondition="ISHOutputFormat.FDITAOTTRANSTYPE='ishditadelivery'"> for the Dynamic Delivery output format.
  • Alternatively, create a <postprocess> section if you create a new output format.
  • Make the changes.