Publishing an IETP
You can publish an IETP for use with SDL Contenta S1000D or your own IETP viewer.
Before you begin
SDL LiveContent must be installed and configured if publishing to SDL LiveContent S1000D . If publishing to the file system, you must perform additional setup (see "Configuring third-party output formats").
About this task
Procedure
- In Contenta S1000D, select the desired Configuration, Project, or PModule object.
Note: If you select a Project, you will be able to publish only PMs in that project; if you select a PModule, you will be able to publish only that PM.Remember: To publish from a project, the configuration must be on the user's desktop.
- Click Tools, then click S1000D Publish.
- Select one or more PMs to publish.
Note: If publishing an incremental update, select only one PM.
- If any of the selected PMs has applicability, and you want to filter by applicability during publish rather than while viewing the IETP, perform the following steps:
- Click Set Applicability.
The Publication Module Applicability window opens.Note: When using an ACT Catalog DM, the Publication Module Applicability window will take longer to open.
- Select a PM.
- Indicate the content that you want to be rendered.
Unless a check box is selected or a text field contains a valid value, the content with that applicability will not be included in the IETP.
- Click Apply Applicability.
The applicability that you select here applies until you close the browser.
Note: The information that is displayed in the Applicability window is based on the contents of the ACT DM that is referenced by the PM being published. If that ACT DM in turn references a PCT and a CCT, the content of those DMs will also be displayed. - Click Set Applicability.
- To publish an incremental update to an existing IETP:
- Click Select Change Package. If one or more change packages exist for the PM, the Select Change Package window appears.
- In the Select Change Package window, complete the fields as described in the following table.
Field Entry Optimize publish for Select either the Size or Speed radio button to optimize the publish for size or speed. Select a change package to publish Select a change package from the drop-down list. - Click Apply. Your selections are saved and the system displays a message showing your selections, such as the following:
Click OK to close the message window.Note: You can cancel your selections by closing the window without clicking Apply. To cancel your selections after you have clicked Apply, select -NONE- from the change package list, and then click Apply. - Click Close to close the Select Change Package window.
- In the Formats field, click LiveContent or click Contenta to name-of-your-IETP-viewer.
Note: If your site is configured to publish to PDF, you can publish to both LiveContent and PDF if desired, by selecting multiple formats.
- Check the Get Latest Content check box to obtain the latest versions of reusable components (warnings, cautions, support equipment, supplies, spares) from the CSDB repository. Uncheck this check box to output the versions of reusable components that are in each data module, which may not be the latest versions, or if your site is not using the SDL Contenta S1000D reusable components functionality, that is, not storing reusable components in the CSDB repository. Defaults to checked.
- LiveContent only:
Note: If publishing to a third-party IETP viewer, select custom options as needed. If publishing to LiveContent, select the custom options described in this step.
- Enter a unique ZIP File Name.
Note: When publishing an incremental update (change package), the issue number of the change package is appended to the ZIP File Name you specify. For example, if you enter SB_00041_01 and the change package issue number is 002, the name of the change package zip file will be SB_00041_01_002.zip. Appending the change package number in this way ensures that the zip file for the full publish is not overwritten.
- Enter a Collection Name.
Note: If you are publishing an incremental update you must enter an existing collection.
- Select a Skin Name (presentation template) for the IETP.
SDL Contenta S1000D delivers a Carbon skin by default. You may supply your own skin if preferred.
- Select the CGM Viewer to use to display the CGM graphics.
- To download the LiveContent .zip file, select the Show Link to ZIP File in Log check box.
If you do not select the check box, the .zip file is stored on the Contenta Web server.
- Select the Upload Completed ZIP to CSDB check box to upload a copy of the .zip file to the Deliverables folder in Contenta.
This option does not apply if you published from a project.
- Select the Flash Front Matter in ZIP File check box to include SWF files for the front matter in the IETP.
- To delete the collection from the server once the IETP is published, select the Delete Content from ZIP File check box.
If the collection is not cleaned, subsequent publish activities to the same collection name appends content to the collection. Users are able see each others' publications.Note: Using the Delete Content from ZIP File option only deletes the collection, it does not publish.
- Enter a unique ZIP File Name.
- Click Publish.
While publish is running, progress messages are displayed in the Publish window.
- After Publish completes, click View Log, then scroll to the bottom of the publish log.
Note: If you are publishing a full IETP, you can click the link to open or save the zip file containing the published IETP. If you are publishing an incremental update (change package), you can save the zip file to a different location if needed (Publish places this zip file in the Contenta_home/web/cw_common/custom/S1000D_Publish/temp directory on the CW server).
- If you are publishing an incremental update, open the zip file of most recent full publish, start LiveContent, click the Install Updates link, and browse to the change package zip file to install the updates.
- If Publish completed with errors or warnings, scroll through the publish log to find the errors or warnings, which are highlighted (yellow background). For example, Publish warns about missing or invalid WCN targets:
[REF RESOLVE] Referenced WCN is in Data Module: NOTEXIST-AAA-D00-00-00-00AA-041A-A
[WARNING] Missing target for referenced caution
[REF RESOLVE] Referenced WCN is in Data Module: NOTWCN-AAA-D00-00-00-00AA-042A-A
[WARNING] Invalid target for referenced caution
Example
Note: If a warning CIR DM contains multiple warnings with the same id, when references to those warnings are resolved during Publish, all warnings with that id are displayed in the output. The same is true if a caution CIR DM contains multiple cautions with the same id.