Accruent Meridian Enterprise Server 2020 Administrator's Guide

Configure Rendering Options

For most publishing jobs, the basic options of the rendering profile that is assigned to the job are sufficient. When they are not sufficient, rendering options can be configured on a per document basis. These are properties of the source documents that contain the values for the rendering options. In this way, the settings are independent of the rendering profiles that are used to generate the renditions and the settings can be specific to each document.

Although the rendering modules that are provided with Accruent Publisher can render most popular file formats, they do not render all file formats. Options are available for those file types to instead publish a pre-existing Adobe PDF rendition template file. The template file can take the place of the rendition instead of not publishing anything to the destination system, which could be perceived by users as the source document being missing. The template file could contain the text No rendition available, for example. Similarly, some files in the source system might not have a file extension at all. This prevents them from being associated with a rendering profile, which uses file extensions to specify which documents it renders. The rendition template file can also be published for these documents.

Note:

  • If set, these options override the corresponding options of the rendering profile. If these options cannot be used or are not set, the default settings configured for the rendering profile are applied.

    Take for example a rendering profile for the AutoVue rendering module that has its Force all colors to black option enabled.

    • If its Use job advanced rendering settings option is disabled, the rendition will be monochrome.
    • If the Use job advanced rendering settings option is enabled, the value of the property selected for the Color/monochrome option of the job will be used instead.
  • We recommend that you use the properties in the Rendition Properties property set with the options that use properties.
  • The published rendition template can also have watermarks or electronic signature pages applied to it and it can be merged with other renditions as described elsewhere in this chapter.

To configure the rendering options:

  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 SETTINGS. A page that lists the mappable rendering options appears.

  5. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

    Note:

    Some of the options in the following table are only available for specific rendering profiles.

  6. Click SAVE.
Rendering options
Option Description

RENDERING PROFILE OPTIONS group

Page size

If specified, applies the value of the property as the rendition page size. If unspecified, the page size as specified in the rendering profile is used.

To select the property:

  1. Click SELECT. The SELECT PROPERTY dialog box appears and lists all of the available properties.

  2. To filter the list to show only similar property names:

    1. Type the beginning of a property set name or a property name in the filter box. The search operator that will be used is Starts With.
    2. Click the search icon . The list refreshes to show the results of your filter.
    3. To reset the filter results, clear the filter box and click the icon again.
  3. Click the name of the property that you want to use and then click OK. The selected name appears as the option value.

To remove the current property:

  • Click CLEAR. The property name is removed.

For acceptable page size property values, see Page Size Names.

Page orientation

If specified, applies the value of the property as the rendition page orientation. If unspecified, the page orientation as specified in the rendering profile is used.

To select the property, perform the steps listed for the SELECT command in the preceding option.

The orientation values in the selected property can be Portrait, Landscape, P, L, or empty (default orientation). Valid values must match those in the localized language. If an invalid value is encountered, an error message will appear in the publishing log.

Page layout

If specified, applies the value of the property as the view layout to render. If unspecified, the default view is used.

To select the property, perform the steps listed for the SELECT command in the preceding option.

The supported property values are listed in the following table.

Supported property values
Value Description

*

Current view

All

All views

Note:

A Merge PDF license (part number includes M--PMD) or an eSignature module license (part number includes M--PES) is required to use this value with the AutoCAD rendering module. All layouts will be rendered to a single, multi-page rendition.

“<LayoutName>”

A layout name in quotation marks

n,n

Comma-separated list of layout numbers

n-n

Range of layout numbers

n-

 All layout numbers beginning with n

Color/monochrome

If specified, applies the value of the property as the color depth to render. If unspecified, all colors will be rendered in the output.

To select the property, perform the steps listed for the SELECT command in the preceding option.

The supported property values are:

  • Color
  • Any other value will render all colors as black (monochrome).

Pen style

If specified, applies the value of the property as the pen table name with which to render. If unspecified, the default pen table will be used.

To select the property, perform the steps listed for the SELECT command in the preceding option.

AutoLISP

If specified, applies the value of the property as the name of an AutoLISP function to plot the source drawing. If unspecified, the function name specified in the rendering profile will be used. This option is only available for the AutoCAD rendering module. For help creating the AutoLISP function, see Configure an AutoLISP Plotting Command.

To select the property, perform the steps listed for the SELECT command in the preceding option.

MISCELLANEOUS group

Use existing rendition

 If enabled, prevents unnecessary re-rendering of vault documents. The existing rendition will be published instead if it is up to date.

Publish outdated renditions

 If enabled, publishes existing renditions even if they are not up to date.

Include redlines in rendition

 If enabled and the Publish redlines option described in Configuring the publishing options is also enabled, the source document redlines are included in the rendition. This is only supported by the AutoVue Desktop Deployment rendering module.
 DEFAULT PDF TEMPLATE group

Use for empty documents

If enabled, and there is no source file, the file specified for Template PDF file is published to the destination system.

Label item as "Failed"

 If enabled and rendering fails and Use template is set as the action for the failed attempt as described in Configure the File Extension Mappings, then the file specified for Template PDF file is published to the destination system and the item is logged as Failed in the audit trail.

Template PDF file

The name of the Adobe PDF rendition template file to publish for the documents that are affected by the other options in this group.

To specify the file:

  1. Click EDIT. The RESOURCES dialog box appears and lists the custom resources that have already been uploaded to the server.
  2. Select an existing file or upload a new file as described in Manage Custom Resources.

 

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