Publishing documents from Meridian Enterprise

The Publisher can be integrated with Meridian Enterprise so that you can select documents in the PowerUser program and submit them for publishing. When you publish documents from Meridian Enterprise, you might be prompted to select a job definition that controls how and where the documents are published. Job definitions are created by a system administrator to meet your organization's requirements. For information about the available job definitions, consult a system administrator.

Note    Publisher supports hybrid document publishing and rendering when the source and destination systems are both Meridian Enterprise. It is supported only if no rendering is performed or if the AutoCAD rendering module is used. Hybrid parts are not rendered or published if the AutoVue rendering module is used.

Before you begin

To successfully publish documents, the following conditions must be met:

• You must have the Edit Rendition Properties or Edit Rendition Properties Outside Workflow privilege in the Meridian Enterprise source vault to edit the rendition properties of documents.
• You must have the Publish Document privilege in the Meridian Enterprise source vault to submit documents for publishing.
• The documents that you want to publish must be in the Released workflow state before you can add them to the queue and they must remain released until publishing has completed.
• The documents that you want to publish cannot reside in work areas or in a read-only Main area.

NEW  To edit the properties of a document that control how it is rendered:

1. In PowerUser, select the document for which you want to edit its rendition properties.
2. Click the Rendition tab. The Rendition property page appears.
3. Click Edit. The properties become editable.
4. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

5. Click OK to save your changes.

To submit documents from Meridian Enterprise:

1. In PowerUser, select the documents that you want to publish.
2. Right-click over any selected document name to open the shortcut menu.
3. Select Publish. If only one publishing job is defined for the vault, the documents are immediately queued for publishing. Otherwise, the Publish dialog box appears.

1. Select the Publisher job definition from the list that you want to use to publish the documents.
2. If you selected multiple documents in step 1 and want the same job definition applied to all of the documents, select Apply to all documents. If you want to select different job definitions for other documents, leave this option cleared and you will be prompted for each document.

3. Click OK. The documents are added to the queue.

If the job is configured to prevent the same document from being published more than once and a document that you selected is already in the queue, a message is shown to direct you to the existing document in the queue.

Note    The queued documents will be locked until publishing (and any rendering and post-processing) has completed.

When the publishing will occur depends (among other factors) on the configuration of the publishing job that is assigned to the documents.

You can view the documents that you submitted as described in Viewing the Publisher queue.