IBM FileNet P8, Version 5.2.1            

Publication documents

The source and publication documents form a relationship through object-valued properties on the Document class. A publication document points to a source document as either a non-dependent document or a dependent document, depending on the option that is specified in the original publish request. If a dependent publication document, a metadata relationship exists that causes the publication document to be deleted if the source document is deleted.

When a document is republished, the publication document is related to a previous publication document in different ways depending on the original publish request and the capabilities of the previous document. The following examples describe the publication document behavior upon republishing:

Note: Publishing a document that consists of multiple content elements results in only the primary, or first, content element being published. In this respect, publishing does not support multiple content element documents.

For versionable documents, the Publishing Designer has the following options regarding the actions to take upon republishing:

Each of these republish options is valid for the publishing types. The following section describes how moving a publication document or filing it in multiple folders affects the publishing types and republishing options:

These publishing cases are summarized in the following table:

Publishing type Republishing option Moved to a different folder Filed in multiple folders
Native publishing Add cases Supported Supported
Native publishing Version cases Supported Supported
Publishing to PDF Add cases Supported Supported
Publishing to PDF Version cases Supported Supported
Publishing to HTML Add cases Supported Requires manual intervention
Publishing to HTML Version cases Supported Not supported


Last updated: October 2015
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