Configuring the Publishing Options

The number of seconds for the system to wait for each attempt of publishing a document to complete before retrying. The default is 180 seconds. If all attempts fail to complete within this period, the result will be noted in the publishing log of the document but no errors will be generated.

This timeout is applied to each layout of a drawing being rendered. If a drawing contains many layouts, the total timeout time can be lengthy and not interrupt rendering as expected.

When large jobs run, Enterprise Server slices them into batches so that it can insert other pending publishing jobs in its queue. This prevents a large job from monopolizing the server and delaying all other jobs until it has completed.

This setting specifies the maximum number of documents to include in each batch. The default is 0 (unlimited), which is the maximum of 10000 documents. When a publishing job includes more documents than the batch size, the job will be truncated to one batch of this size and the remaining documents will be published in separate batches by each scheduled run of the job until the entire job is complete. If the job is not scheduled to run again, the batch is simply truncated.

By default, the source document name is used as the name (without file extension) in the destination system. You may also apply the value of a property as the destination document name or you can define an expression to calculate the destination name (only for jobs with a Meridian Enterprise vault as the source system).

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.

4. Click OK.

   The selected name appears as the option value.

To remove the current property:

• Click Clear.

  The property name is removed.

To define an expression to calculate the file name:

1. Click EXPRESSION.

   The EXPRESSION dialog box appears and lists the available properties in the source system.

2. In the Expression pane, type an expression to be evaluated during publishing.

   The expression may use any .NET compliant methods (except Parse) and operators in the C# language syntax. The result of the expression will be the file name in the destination system. Double-click a property in the list to insert it into the expression. For multi-sheet drawings, layout properties may also be selected, __LayoutProperties._NAME, for example. The result of the expression must be string data. If necessary, you can convert data types, for example, using the ToString method.

   Following are examples of expressions:

   {Title 1} + " " + {Title 2} + " " + {Title 3}
   {PropertyName}.SubString(0, 10)
   {NonStringProperty}.ToString()

   To set the file extension, enable the Enable Meridian script events option and calculate the file extension in the PublisherDestinationEvent_AfterPublish VBScript event handler.

   For more information about the VBScript events, see Publishing Events

3. To validate the expression, click CHECK.

   Errors in the expression appear in the Errors pane. Correct all errors until the Errors pane is empty.

4. Click Save.

Applies the value of the property as the destination parent folder.

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