Registering documents for publication

For any document to be published, it must first be registered for publication from the source system. Documents can be registered either manually from within the source document management system or programmatically from VBScript, a PowerUser user interface extension, or a .NET application. Programmatically registering documents can be done either with or without the Meridian Enterprise Task Server.

The method of registering documents manually for publication is different for each source system. An application for each source system is provided with Publisher for registering documents manually. Documents can also be registered automatically by triggers customized in the source system. The customization simply creates an entry in the Publisher database for each document to be published. Whether manually or automatically, documents must be registered using the Publisher web services or by direct access to the Publisher database.

Note    The Publisher registration database is created on the server specified during BlueCielo Application Manager configuration as described in Configuring the BlueCielo Application Manager. The database is created when it is needed for the first time.

When a publishing job executes, Dex.exe scans the Publisher database for entries that match the publish code that is specified for the publishing job and processes the documents with matching entries.

For information on viewing the documents that are currently registered in the Publisher queue, see the BlueCielo Publisher User's Guide .

The different methods of registering documents for publication are described in the following topics.