Managing revisions
This section explains how to deliver revisions, author content with revisions, view revision highlights, and perform other revision-related tasks.
- Publication lifecycle
Creating and distributing a LiveContent S1000D publication is not a one-time event. Throughout the lifecycle of the publication, you periodically publish and distribute new data to ensure that your users have the most up-to-date content and the newest version of the application. - Delivering full revisions
You can create a new revision of a CD image by distributing an update to an existing publication or a completely new publication on your existing, uniquely identified CD image. If a user inserts the new CD on a machine that already has an earlier revision of that CD installed, the user will be prompted to add the new publication, or update the existing one. - Incrementally updating a publication
To incrementally update a publication, create an update package. This is a .zip file that contains the changed XML content (for S1000D, the changed data modules and publication modules) for a given revision, and a configuration file called info.xml. Updates optimized for speed do not explicitly contain changed data modules and publications modules. - Installing an incremental update package
This procedure describes how to install an incremental update package. - Rolling a publication back to the last known good state
Roll back a publication to remove the last incremental update. You can only roll back one set of changes. Do this only if the last incremental update has corrupted your system or publication. - Viewing revision highlights
To see a historical list of all issues in a publication, as well as an interactive list of all changes made for each issue, create a Revision Highlights report.