PubAssist is the latest iteration of the InfoDev publishing tool. It is designed to
allow you a quick and easy method of accessing your documentation's source files and
publishing content to the InfoDev servers.
Selecting the PubAssist button in the left navigation displays the PubAssist
tool.
Note: If you have not run PubAssist before or have not created any profiles, PubAssist will not have
profiles to display.
The following sections explain the details of each area of the PubAssist screen.
The Profiles list provides a way to create and maintain profiles, as well as
selecting profiles for publishing.
Figure 1. Profile list as a scrollable list
Queue buttons
To publish your documents, you need to place them in the Publishing Queue. This is
done for publishing singleprofiles or queueing up multiple profiles for automatic
consecutive publishing. The following buttons are available:
Add to Queue: Allows you to place the selected profile in queue to
the desired server. Selecting Add to Queue displays the Add to Queue
menu from which you can select the desired server.
Selecting a
server from the context menu places the profile in queue and increases
the queue number on the Open Queue button.
Note: From within Settings, you can select to not
show the Expere, Testing and Production options.
Open Queue: This button displays the number of items currently in the
queue, and provides the method for accessing the Publishing Queue. For more
information, refer to Publishing Queue.
View in Browser
This grouping of tools allows you to display the selected profile in your
browser.
You can select which server to view your document on using the context menu for the
View on button.
Note: The icon for the Localhost selection displays the
status of the USBWebserver. The above example shows the USBWebserver is
currently running. If the USBWebserver is not recognized as running, the icon
appears like this:
Using browser variables
If you use dynamic profiling within your published content, you can also make use of
the variables feature in IDT. Simply select Use variables in the View in
browser group and enter the desired values (or leave blank) for the
Audience, Revision and Product values.
Note:
The Use variables, Aud, Rev, and Prod values
are automatically saved to the IDT settings and are retained between IDT
sessions.
The variables displayed in each list can be edited within the Editor once you have an item in the list.
When values are used, selecting a server from the View on context menu results
in the variables being appened to the URL when displayed in the browser.
Last Modified Dates
The Last Modified Dates feature presents published information for the selected
profile.
Last Modified Dates (LMD) and Last Published Dates (LPD) are provided for each server
environment. The Last Modified Dates display the latest date that the item on the
server was modified (transformed in Oxygen). The Last Published Dates display the
last time the content was published by IDT to the server.
This information is helpful in determining if your content has been published to a
specific server since you last transformed it. For example, you would not need to
publish to Staging if your Source and Staging dates are the same. IF Source is a
later date than Staging, you need to publish to Staging.
If you select Auto check, the Last Modified Dates are refreshed automatically
when you select a profile from the Profiles
List. You can manually refresh the information at any time by selecting
Refresh Dates.
Note: From within Settings, you can
select to not show the Expere, Testing and Production columns.
Profile Details
The Profile elments section is where you view, edit and create the details for each
individual profile.
Note: When a profile is selected, the
number of files within the Source location is displayed on the right side of the
Profile Details titlebar.
Feature
Description
Profile Name
The name of the profile.
This is typically the name of the document artifact (OPPSA User
Guide, etc.)
This is the name that is displayed in the Profiles List.
Source Folder
The location of the files that are transformed by Oxygen (the
location of the Oxygen output folder).
Note: For the purpose of PubAssist, it may be easier for you to
crate multiple transformation scenarios in Oxygen - one for each
document you transform. Having Oxygen transform to individual
locations in the C:\DITA\Server framework allows for a local
representation of the content that is more identical with the
servers.
Server Folder
Allows you to select a location on the development server to which
the content of the profile will publish. the location selected will be
the same across all servers.
Oxygen Project*
Allows you to select the associated Oxygen project file. This is
helpful if you have mapped the DITA Repository to a network drive.
Clicking the Oxygen button opens the project file within
Oxygen.
DITAMap*
Allows you to select the associated Oxygen DITAMap file. This is
helpful if you have mapped the DITA Repository to a network drive.
Clicking the Oxygen button opens the ditamap file within
Oxygen.
Add Profile
Creates a new profile that includes the information in the Profile
elements text boxes.
Selecting a server from the context menu places the profile in queue and increases the queue number on the Open Queue button.Note: From within Settings, you can select to not show the Expere, Testing and Production options.
