Publisher is a component of Meridian Enterprise Server for publishing (copying) documents from one document management system to another. Publisher can optionally render documents from the source system to a different file format before publishing them to the destination system. Lastly, the system can add watermarks to renditions (including the prior revision), append electronic signature pages to the final output, and merge related renditions into a single file.
Publisher combines rendering, post-processing, and publishing in a publishing job that it can run either on demand or as a scheduled task. Publisher includes links to common document management systems. Publisher also includes rendering modules for popular engineering content authoring applications. Publisher is configured and publishing jobs are created using the Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, the central tool for managing several Accruent applications.
Publisher includes application links that can be installed to simplify publishing documents from within source document management systems, such as Meridian Enterprise, SharePoint, Accruent Project Portal, and a Windows file system. The links add documents to the publishing queue that can be managed through a website installed on the Meridian Enterprise Server computer. The queue can be viewed and controlled using a web browser from anywhere on the network.
The following topics describe how to manage the Publisher queue to publish documents.
