Power Hour July 2010 Deployment Clients Ben Allums

Power Hour – July 2010 Agenda Survey Results Deployment Clients Webinars of Interest

Power Hour – July 2010 Survey Results

Survey Results When to meet:

Survey Results Topics to cover:

Survey Results Topics to cover: Mapping Styles from FrameMaker 8 to ePublisher

Power Hour – July 2010 Deployment Clients

Deployment Clients What are deployment clients? Why deployment clients? How do they work? How can I make my own?

Deployment Clients What are deployment clients? Standalone executables Conform to the ePublisher deployment client CLI interface Enable integration of any custom deployment methodology

Deployment Clients Why deployment clients? Created to support Wiki deployment in ePublisher Wiki deployment needs too varied across delivery platforms (MoinMoin, MediaWiki, Confluence) External process enables the use of different Windows technologies to implement the right solution Security enabled by the client itself ePublisher tracks deployment configurations on behalf of deployment clients

Let’s try it! Deployment Clients How do they work? Standalone executables Invoked with either configure <input configuration path> <output configuration path> deploy <configuration path> <deploy file type> <files info> ePublisher expects to track a configuration as a single string Wiki deployment clients encode complex configurations with Base64 encoding to represent the configuration as a single string Tied into the format via format.wwfmt hints Let’s try it!

Deployment Clients How can I make my own? Create your executable Implement configure option Implement deploy option Copy it into your project area Formats\Helpers Create a new stage (if necessary) to generate a deployment info file Override format.wwfmt Define your custom deployment capability Add your deployment info file generation stage

Power Hour – July 2010 Webinars of Interest

Webinars of Interest Show Me: Learn what the ePublisher platform can do for you right out of the box. Hosted by members of the WebWorks staff Repeats on the 3rd Thursday of every month Sign-up at http://www.webworks.com/Resources/Events/Show_Me/Archive/

Webinars of Interest Study Hall: Open forum for ePublisher users to ask questions and request help on custom projects Hosted by members of the WebWorks development staff Repeats on the 2nd and last Wednesdays of every month Join at http://www.webworks.com/Resources/Events/Study_Hall/

Webinars of Interest Archives: Power Hour http://www.webworks.com/Resources/Events/Power_Hour/Archive/ Show Me! http://www.webworks.com/Resources/Events/Show_Me/Archive/

Power Hour July 2010 Deployment Clients Ben Allums