About publish templates

The primary method of publishing will be by using a publish template. Workplace supports publish templates, where you use the Publishing Designer to specify a template for publishing. This includes the options to use when actually publishing a document such as the style template and the properties and security to apply to the destination document. It also provides some instructions for republishing a document, such as whether to version the existing destination document or replace it. When another user wants to publish a document, they can simply choose the appropriate template to use for that document.

Confusion in terminology can arise because the act of publishing is also considered authoring because you are causing a destination document to be created from a source document. Also, you might have some author privileges on the source document to make the decision to publish it. The publish template encapsulates all the publish options you might otherwise specify manually.

See Create publishing templates for more information.