Implementing publishing
To implement publishing, you must define one or more output formats. If you want to customize the publishing process, it's important to understand the DITA Open Toolkit and organize your workspace.
- Defining output formats
Before users can publish content, you must first have defined one or more output formats for publishing. In Organize Space, you can define all types of output format ; to define a Dynamic Delivery output format, you can also use Powershell. Once an output format is defined, end users can add outputs based on that output format to a publication in Publication Manager or in Organize Space. After you've created an output format, it automatically becomes active, that is, visible in lists in properties screens. To hide them from such lists, modify the output format and clear the Active checkbox. - Publishing process overview
The publishing process is initiated by the user. Content Manager automates all that follows. The publishing flow, steps and logs described here apply to publishing to the Dynamic Delivery output format. - About the Product Family and Product Release
Dynamic Delivery environments use each publication's Product family name and Product release name properties to determine where the output should be displayed. - Configuring which metadata-bound fields are searchable in Dynamic Delivery outputs
In the configurations for publish plug-ins and for background tasks, you can configure which metadata fields you would like to see indexed for searching in a Dynamic Delivery output. - Publishing with DITA-OT
You can use the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) with Content Manager to build DITA output. - Customizing publishing
You can customize publishing in several ways: adding stylesheets to DITA-OT, modifying publish plugins in existing output formats or creating new output formats with their own DITA-OT stylesheets and post-process plugins sequence. This part focuses on post-process plugins. - Publishing with Taxonomy Synchronization
After a Tridion Docs publication has been published to Content Delivery, it implicitly updates a cache calledTaxonomy-Indexin OpenSearch. You can also trigger an explicit refresh of the taxonomy on the Content Delivery system by publishing a special Taxonomy Sync publication. To create such a publication, first run a PowerShell script.
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