A publishing job is created as described in Creating a publishing job. This type of job defines the options for publishing documents and, optionally, renditions.
To configure a publishing job:
Note Some of the options in the following table are only available for specific source or destination system types.
Option | Description |
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Synchronization |
The read-only type of the publishing job. |
Name/Code |
The read-only, internal identifier used by Publisher to refer to the job regardless of the value of Display Name. |
Display Name |
Type a descriptive name as you want it to appear in the Administration Console and elsewhere. |
Source systems |
The sources of the documents to publish. Note The type of the systems are shown in italic text. The display names of the systems are shown in bold text. These are shown for users to select a specific destination from when the user publishes documents with a job that has multiple destination systems configured. The connection names of the systems are shown in normal text. To change the sources:
To change the display names of the systems to be more user-friendly:
To check whether the systems that are listed are online and available:
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Properties file |
A Microsoft Excel (2003 or higher) file that contains document metadata to publish to the destination system. Available only for file system sources. The format of the metadata must be:
To select the file, click BROWSE. |
Destination systems |
The destination of the documents to publish. To change the destination, perform steps similar to the Source systems option. |
Computer |
If a cluster is configured as described in Configuring a Meridian Enterprise Server cluster, select the node on which to run this job. |
Use database for metadata storage |
By default, document metadata is published to an XML file named <DateTimeStamp>_<JobName>.xml (for example, 2013-10-04_07-30-35_BA5586.xml) and located in the destination folder. All of the properties mapped as described in Configuring the mappings are output to the file. Enabling this option stores the document metadata in a database instead of in a file on disk. The database connection parameters are specified in the following options. Available only for file system destinations. |
Connection string |
A valid connection string to connect to a SQL Server or Oracle database where the metadata should be stored. |
User name |
A user account name with rights to connect to the database specified in Connection string. |
Password |
The password for the account specified in User name. To test the current connection credentials:
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Table |
The name of the table where to store the metadata. The column names and data types in this table must match the property names and data types that are mapped as described in Configuring the mappings. |
Path column |
The name of the column that will contain the document paths. The column must be the String data type. |
Related concepts
About publishing job scheduling
Related tasks
Disabling and enabling a publishing job
Scheduling a single publishing job
Scheduling a batch of publishing jobs
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