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Setting Up a Content Manager Output Format for Content Delivery

For your users to be able to publish from Content Manager to Content Delivery, you must first set up a Content Manager output format, and then create an instance of the format in Publication Manager.

Before you begin

Consider these requirements and suggestions:

  • In Content Manager, you must have Administrator access to the Content Manager web client.
  • In Content Delivery, you must create a user that belongs to a group that has the Manage Pubs permission.
  • In Content Delivery, you should have added any customized skin to Content Delivery before you begin this procedure. If you do not, the default skin is base.
  • You do not need to have a publication nor a language version set up in Content Delivery; the publish process creates them for you.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Content Manager web client as an user with administration rights, for example, Administrator.
  2. On the Settings tab, click Output Formats.
  3. Click New.
  4. In the Output Format Properties dialog box, set the following (all the other settings are left as they are):
    1. For Output Format, type Content Delivery.
      This is the name that users will see in Content Manager Publication Manager when they publish.
    2. For Resolutions, type a comma-space delimited list of the resolutions of graphics that you want to appear in Content Delivery publications.
      For example Low, High.
    3. Under EDT of the output, select ZIP.
    4. Uncheck Single file.
    5. For Style processor, select Content Delivery.
    6. In the SDL Knowledge Center Content Delivery section, under URL of the server, type the URL and port number for the Content Delivery server.
      The URL must include http:// or https:// and the port number for Content Delivery if it doesn't use the default port. Omit a final forward slash at the end of the URL.
      For example, http://contentdelivery.lc.example.com/ContentDelivery (where lc refers to an example related to Content Delivery, and contentdelivery specifies it further as a delivery server)
    7. Same section, under User name, type the user in Content Delivery through whom the publication is handled. This user must belong to a group that has the Manage Publication permission in Content Delivery.
    8. Same section, under Password, type the password corresponding to the user name you specified in the previous step.
    9. In the Advanced section, make sure all the boxes are checked.
    10. Click OK.
  5. On the Content Manager server computer, restart IIS.
  6. Log in to Content Manager Publication Manager as a user with administrative permissions, for example, Administrator.
  7. On the Output tab, click Add.
  8. In the Select Output Format dialog box, click SDL Knowledge Center, then click Next.
  9. In the Add Publication Output dialog box, do the following:
    1. For Language Combination, type a plus sign (+) delimited list of the language codes that you want to publish with this output format instance.
      For example, en-US+fr-FR
    2. For Modules and Masters, Images, and Resources, type a plus sign (+) delimited list of the language codes you want to publish.
    3. Click OK.
      The output format instance is created with a status of To be published.
  10. Validate the publishing process.