Preparing content for publishing on the Avaya Documentation Center

Last Updated : Jun 08, 2026 |

About this task

To publish content on the Avaya Documentation Center, you must add the required metadata to the bookmap and add the new AvayaDocPortal output format.

Before you begin

Know the metadata values, such as bundle name, product family, and product name that you must provide in the bookmap of the document.
In the Title field of the topic properties, include only alphanumeric characters, dashes, and underscores. Avoid special characters.
Ensure that the topic that you reference using scope=peer is added to the Resources section of the publication.

Procedure

In the Tridion Docs repository, select the publication, and set Release Number correctly in the publication properties.

Important:
If you do not add the release number correctly, user cannot filter the information by release number on the Avaya Documentation Center.
To ensure that the correct product family and product name are set in the bookmap of your publication:
1. Right-click the bookmap, click Properties > Avaya-specific fields, and change the value if the product family and product are set to Common DITA supporting content or any other incorrect project name.
2. If you do not see your project name, check with your lead and open an INFOSOLUTIONS Jira ticket to get the name added to the list.
3. To change the values in bulk, from Browse Repository or the Baseline tab of the publication, select all topics or maps:
  1. Right-click Properties > Avaya-specific fields, and change the product family and product names.
  2. Click OK.
To set the bundle name:
1. Check out the bookmap by using the Check out with option to open in Oxygen XML Author.
  
  The bookmap opens in Oxygen XML Author.
2. From the toolbar or the DITA > Tags display mode menu, click Full Tags.
3. Place your cursor within the bookmeta element, add a new othermeta element, if not already available.
4. Set the following bundle parameters:
  - name=bundle
  - content=<bundle-name>.
    
    Where <bundle-name> is a unique name that identifies document type, product name, and release number.
    Important:
    Use a unique release number to prevent overwriting documents the older release on Avaya Documentation Center. For example
    
    For Release 8.1 document, UsingSolutionDeploymentManagerClient_r81
    
    For Release 8.2 document, UsingSolutionDeploymentManagerClient_r82
5. Check in the bookmap.
To set the homepage in the publication:
1. Identify the topic that you want to set as home page.
  
  If you do not set the homepage for a publication, the publication displays the first topic on Avaya Documentation Center, which is the legal page.
  
  The best practice is to set the overview or purpose topic as the home page.
2. In Oxygen XML Author, check out the map that contains the topic you want to set as home page.
3. Place the cursor in the topicref element.
4. In the Attributes window, set outputclass = homepage.
To publish the output on the Avaya Documentation Center, do the following:
1. Add the AvayaDocPortal output type.
2. In the output properties, set the Language combination.
3. To publish output for languages other than English, set the fallback languages for Topics and maps, images, and Resources to en-us.
4. Publish the output.
  
  Important:
  For AvayaDocPortal output, the document is automatically uploaded to the Avaya Documentation Center. You do not have to do anything with the zip file produced in Tridion Docs.
Go to https://documentation.avaya.com, log in using your global handle and password, and verify if the document is published correctly, and topics show up.