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Publishing Destinations offer you the ability to publish release data for a revision of a PCB Fabrication Data Item, PCB Assembly Data Item, or PCB Project Design Item, directly from a managed content server, or Output Job, to a storage space - such as Box.com, Amazon S3, an FTP server, or a simple folder location on a shared network. This enables you to host generated release data securely, while providing access to it on a global scale. From the manufacturing plant in China, to the design teams in Kiev, Stanstead Abbotts, and San Diego, and to the project director flying back and forth between all, the geographically-dispersed 'Product Team' - collectively responsible for getting the product from idea to physical reality - have shared (and controlled) access to view, discuss, and utilize the data to build the Item.
Before looking at how the release data for the revision of a supported Item type is actually published, options must first be defined, to set up where that data is to be stored. This is performed from the Data Management - Publishing Destinations page of the Preferences dialog (click on the control at the top-right of the workspace).
Publishing Destinations are specified as part of the Altium NEXUS preferences.
For each defined publishing destination, the following information is presented:
To add a new publishing destination hosted by Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3), click the button and choose Amazon S3 from the associated menu - the Add Amazon S3 Publishing Destination dialog will appear.
Define the connection to an Amazon S3 publishing destination.
Define the destination as follows:
A connection from Altium NEXUS is made, and an entry will appear for it in the listing of publishing destinations, back on the Data Management - Publishing Destinations page of the Preferences dialog.
To add a new publishing destination whose folder structure will reside within your cloud-based Box (hosted by Box.com) click the button and choose Box.com from the associated menu - the Add Box.com Publishing Destination dialog will appear.
Define the connection to a Box.com publishing destination.
Define the destination as follows:
A connection to the nominated folder from Altium NEXUS is made, and an entry will appear for it in the listing of publishing destinations, back on the Data Management - Publishing Destinations page of the Preferences dialog.
Example addition of a new Box.com hosted publishing destination. The destination will be connected to Altium NEXUS ready for immediate use.
To add a new local folder-based publishing destination, click the button and choose Folder from the associated menu - the Add Folder Publishing Destination dialog will appear.
Define the connection to a folder publishing destination.
Define the destination as follows:
A connection to the nominated folder from Altium NEXUS is made, and an entry will appear for it in the listing of publishing destinations, back on the Data Management - Publishing Destinations page of the Preferences dialog.
To add a new publishing destination hosted by an FTP server, click the button and choose FTP from the associated menu - the Add FTP Publishing Destination dialog will appear.
Define the connection to an FTP server.
Define the destination as follows:
123.45.1.1
), a domain name (such as myserver.com
), or a hostname if located on your local area network (such as myserver
).A connection to the nominated folder from Altium NEXUS is made, and an entry will appear for it in the listing of publishing destinations, back on the Data Management - Publishing Destinations page of the Preferences dialog.
You can edit the connection to a Publishing Destination at any time, for example if the location of the publishing destination changes. To do this, double-click on the entry for the destination in the listing of destinations, or select the entry and click the button. A dialog will appear, from where you can modify the connection properties.
To remove a publishing destination, select its entry in the listing of destinations, then click the button.
The following additional publishing options are provided (where applicable) when defining a publishing destination:
Example HTML page listing the contents of published data.
With Publishing Destinations defined as required, you are able to publish release data for a board design either from the detailed Item view, the Explorer panel, or from an OutputJob file:
The publishing sub-menu lists all available Publishing Destinations, by name, as defined on the Data Management - Publishing Destinations page of the Preferences dialog.
The publishing sub-menu lists all available Publishing Destinations, by name, as defined on the Data Management - Publishing Destinations page of the Preferences dialog.
Access publishing commands from within an OutJob file.
In each case, use the subsequent Publish to dialog to define the required destination sub-folder in which to store the data.
Once published, set access rights for the folder, FTP site or Amazon S3 area as required (and if not already), then communicate availability of data to the required people. With a Box publishing destination, determine - through email - with whom to share the published data, at the time of publishing (in the Publish to dialog).
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