Using the Publishing Definition Type

The Publishing definition type allows you to publish content into a Report2Web catalog, which can be used as an archive. Content published into a catalog can also follow an approval workflow, where reports can be approved or rejected.

You specify the Report2Web Catalog, the Report Name, which is the name of the report within Report2web including its path, and the Source file. Optionally, you specify if the report requires to follow an approval workflow.

Specifying Files in the Source Field

You can specify files using the following syntaxes:

• <step_name>, Job <n>:<file> - specify a chain process in a final state; the publishing job must be part of the same chain.
  • Example: Step 1, Job 1:stdout.log
• Job <ID>:<file> - specify a process or chain process and the output
  • Example: Job 123:stdout.log
• parent:<file> - specify the output file of the parent of the current process; note that the parent of a call in a chain is the step, and steps have no output.

Metadata

You specify Metadata that will be visible in Report2Web and which is used to describe and locate the document with ease.

Variables and Parameters

The following parameters are available:

Name	Description
Publish_Comment	approval comment
Publish_DeleteTemporaryFile	Should the temporary file be deleted?
Publish_Status	approval status

You specify variables like ${<variable_name>} and parameters like ${Publisher.parameters.<parameter_name>}

Variable Name	Data Type	Description
${description}	String	The description of this process.
${file.index}	Number	The index of the file in the list of files.
${file.name}	String	The name of the file.
${finishtime}	Date	The time when this process finished.
${jobdefinition}	String	The name of this process.
${jobid}	Number	The ID of this process.
${jobname}	String	The name of this process.
${jobowner}	String	The owner of this process.
${processserver}	String	The process server this process is running on.
${publisher.description}	String	The description of the publisher process.
${publisher.jobdefinition}	String	The name of the publisher process.
${publisher.jobid}	Number	The ID of the publisher process.
${publisher.jobname}	String	The name of the publisher process.
${publisher.jobowner}	String	The owner of the publisher process.
${publisher.processserver}	String	The process server the publisher process is running on.
${publisher.queue}	String	The queue the publisher process is running on.
${publisher.requestedstarttime}	Date	The requested start time of the publisher process.
${publisher.starttime}	Date	The start time of the publisher process.
${queue}	String	The queue the process is running on.
${requestedstarttime}	Date	The requested start time of this process.
${starttime}	Date	The start time of this process.

Example

The following example illustrates the use of Variables and for metadata:

<reportmetadata>
   <pubprofilename>${Publisher.parameters.Profile}</pubprofilename>
    <docproperties>
        <description>${Description}</description>
        <title>${JobDefinition}</title>
        <subject>${Description}</subject>
        <author>${JobOwner}</author>
        <date>${StartTime}</date>
        <keywords />
    </docproperties>
</reportmetadata>