BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

Configuring the file extension mappings

A publishing job can use different rendering profiles to render specific file types. You aren't limited to using the same rendering profile for a particular file type for all business scenarios. The file extension mapping options give you a lot of flexibility to optimize the results of the job for your needs.

You may configure up to three different actions that you want Publisher to take for each file extension depending on the success or failure of the previous action. If a rendering profile fails on the first attempt for any reason, you can configure Publisher to try again with a different rendering profile on the second attempt. You can configure a third attempt with yet another rendering profile or configure a final action for Publisher to take.

Besides actual file extensions, two special settings are available that can be mapped:

• [Empty] – Represents all files without a file extension.
• [Other] – Represents all files with different file extensions than any that are explicitly mapped.

If no action is configured for these extensions, errors can occur and the documents will not be published. To use these special settings, select them in the File extension list as described in the following task.

Note    When you add a new rendering profile to a job, the default file extensions for that rendering profile are automatically added to the file extension mappings if the extensions are not already mapped to a different rendering profile. When you remove a rendering profile from a job, its existing file extension mappings are automatically removed and any existing mappings or actions are promoted to the next available action. The exception is if the file extension is not mapped to any other rendering profile. In this case, you must remove the file extension yourself if you do not want it available to the job.

To configure the file extension mappings:

1. In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the Data Exchange group, click Jobs. The All Jobs page appears and lists the existing publishing jobs. The jobs are grouped by the name of the computer (cluster node) to which they have been assigned.
2. Double-click the publishing job that you want to configure. The Overview page appears.
3. On the menu, click RENDERING. The Rendering page appears.
4. In the page header, click FILE EXTENSION MAPPING. A page that lists the mapped file extensions appears.
5. To add a file extension to the list:
   • Click Add. A new row appears at the top of the list. It has no file extension or rendering profile configured yet.

   To remove a file extension from the list:

   • Select the row that contains the file extension that you want to remove and then in the toolbar, click Remove. The selected file extension is removed from the list.

   To map a file extension to a rendering profile or other action:

   • Click one or more rows that contain the file extensions that you want to configure. The current rendering profile mappings for the file extensions appear in the detail pane.
6. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.
7. Click Update to save your changes.