About publishing jobs

A publishing job defines the source and destination systems and the options that are used to publish documents between the systems. Publishing jobs are created from publishing job templates in Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console. A template provides specific options that depend on the type of the source or destination system.

The available job templates include:

• Publish – Publishes documents or renditions from a source system to a destination system
• Rendition – Renders documents within a source system without publishing them to a destination system. The supported source systems are Meridian Enterprise, Meridian Explorer, and BlueCielo Project Portal.
• Configurable synchronization – Publishes documents from a Meridian Enterprise vault to a Meridian Explorer repository. The synchronization will include project folders created by the Meridian Advanced Project Workflow module.
• Configurable synchronization without projects – Publishes documents from a Meridian Enterprise vault to a Meridian Explorer repository but excludes project folders created by the Meridian Advanced Project Workflow module.
• Data Library synchronization – Publishes documents from a Meridian Enterprise vault to a Meridian Enterprise Data Library repository. This job type has no configurable options other than the vault selection.

Multiple publishing jobs can be created for running by Meridian Enterprise Server and each job can be ran either manually or as a scheduled task.

Note    You must be a member of a BlueCielo group with the Publisher Configurators or Application Administrators permission in order to create or manage a publishing job.

To use publishing jobs to publish documents, you perform the following steps in the order listed, regardless of the job template that was used to create the job:

1. Create publishing jobs as described in Creating a publishing job.
2. Configure the publishing jobs as described in the topics that describe each job template type.
3. Run publishing jobs as described in Running a publishing job.
4. Monitor the progress of publishing jobs as described in Monitoring background tasks.