The Publish Method Configuration wizard allows you to generate a web site based on a method configuration.
- From the toolbar, use theConfiguration menu to select
Publish. The Publish Method Configuration wizard
appears. - Select the method configuration you want to publish from the list of available configurations. Click Next to continue.
- Indicate if you want all the method content of the selected method configuration to be included in the published site or if you want only the method content that is being used by the processes that you can select in the process list below.
- Select options to customize the look and behavior of the published
site:
- Select options for Title and Links.
- Title: the title will be displayed in the title bar of the browser showing the published site -
- About content: select here a text or HTML file that contains the text that shall be displayed when the user presses the About button in the published site
- Feedback URL: See page Changing The Feedback Address for details
- Select options for Glossary and Index. Check these boxes to generate a Glossary and Index section
- Select options for Look and Feel.
- Publish Banner: Check this box to create a banner on top of the published content. Use the Banner Image field to select a graphic file that contains your banner. If you do not enter anything here, EPF will use its default banner.
- Select options for Validation.
- Check for external hyperlinks: When this option is selected, Composer will check all hyperlinks before publishing. Deselect this option if you are not connected to the internet or have to use a Proxy server (currently not supported).
- Convert broken links to plain text: If the Check for external links finds broken links and this option is not selected, Composer will prefix each link with a broken link symbol. The same is true for links to content elements that are not in the published method configuration. If this option is selected all links will be converted to plain text instead and no broken link symbol will be used.
- Select options for Diagrams.
- Publish Activity Detail Diagrams that have not manually created: When this option is selected Composer will publish an Activity Detail Diagram for every Activity. It will automatically create these diagrams and publish them with a default auto-layout. If the option is deselected then only the Activity Detail Diagrams are published that a user has manually created in the Process Editor and saved with her custom layout.
- Publish Activity Diagrams for unmodified Activity Extensions: By default activities that are extensions of other activities will not be published with an Activity Diagram, but only the Breakdown Structure. If this option is selected however, extending Activities will be published with the diagram of their base Activities if these extending Activities do not define their own sub-elements, i.e. are pure pattern applications without providing its own modifications. If these Activities define their own elements it is recommended that users create a local activity diagram for the extending activity that will then be published.
- Select options for Layout.
- Show relationship sub-folder in navigation tree: If selected it will publish elements such as task with its related elements (such as input and output work products) in separate subfolders. If deselected it will publish related elements as sub-elements. It will also just list a sub-set of these related elements in the tree; e.g. only output work products for tasks and not the inputs.
- Show task descriptors in navigation tree: If deselected Composer will create for published processes in the tree-browser a breakdown for all activities. If selected it will also include the descriptor level into the tree-browser. Note, selecting this option will have an impact on publication time as well as performance of the published site.
- Include method content in descriptor pages: If this option is selected it will hide the distinction between method content elements and descriptors from the users of the published site. All descriptors will be published without using the word “Descriptor” as their type as well as all the content and guidance relationships of the related method content elements.
- Include link to related descriptor pages: When this option is selected all method content pages will include an additional section called “Process Usage” that list all occurrences of the method content elements in all processes of the published configuration. This allows for a quick overview to see in which processes and where in these processes method content elements have been used.
- Default tab for Activity pages: Published Activity pages comprise of four tabs. This option allows selecting which of these tabs shall be presented first by default.
- Click NEXT to get to the next set of publishing options.
- Enter destination Directory: Decide in which directory the published site shall be created.
- Select options for Website format.
- Static web site: This will create static html pages in the directory selected above. If the check box is selected Search will be supported requiring a Java runtime environment installed on the Website user’s machine as it will use a Java Applet.
- Java EE: will create one WAR file in the location selected above that can be installed on a Java EE web server with Servlet 2.3 capabilities. Search will be realized as a Servlet running on such servers.
- Click Finish. Publishing is initiated.