About publishing jobs

A publishing job defines the source and destination systems and the options that are used to publish documents between the systems. You create a publishing job from one of the 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:

• 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 component.
• 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.
• Publish – Publishes documents or renditions from a source system to a destination system other than Meridian Explorer.
• Export Package – Publishes an export package that contains documents to a Windows file system or to Meridian Portal.
• Rendition – Creates renditions within the Meridian Enterprise vault.

Publishing jobs run in Meridian Enterprise Server and each job can run 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 to create or manage a publishing job.

To use publishing jobs, 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 Configuring a publishing job.
3. Run publishing jobs as described in Running a publishing job.
4. Monitor the progress of publishing jobs as described in Monitoring background tasks.