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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:
  1. Sign in to Organize Space.
  2. On the top tab level, select the Settings tab.
  3. On the second tab level, select the XML Settings tab.
  4. On the third tab level, select the Publish Plug-ins tab.
  5. Locate the appropriate output format <postprocess> section (e.g. <postprocess ishcondition="ISHOutputFormat.FDITAOTTRANSTYPE='ishditadelivery'"> for the Dynamic Delivery output format.
  6. Alternatively, create a <postprocess> section if you create a new output format.
  7. Make the changes.