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.

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

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

Rendition properties
Property	Description
From view	The view within the source document to render.
Page size	The size of the page to render to. Sizes are those that are defined on the Meridian Enterprise Server computer where the document will be rendered.
Page orientation	The orientation of the page to render to: Landscape or Portrait.
Rendition color	The color depth to render to: Color or Black and white.
Pen settings file	An AutoVue pen settings filename to apply to the rendition. File names are those that are available on the Meridian Enterprise Server computer. Applicable only if the publishing job is configured to use the AutoVue rendering module. For information about the available pen settings files, consult a system administrator.

Click OK to save your changes.

To submit documents from Meridian Enterprise:

In PowerUser, select the documents that you want to publish.

Note Publishing a specific prior revision of a document is not supported.
Right-click over any selected document name to open the shortcut menu.
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.

Select the Publisher job definition from the list that you want to use to publish the documents.
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.

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.

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