Selecting the output format for a publication

Last Updated : Mar 27, 2021 |
Prolog information
You must select the output format for a publication before you can generate an output. The status of the output format is To Be Published until the output is generated for the first time.
Important:
When you publish the AvayaDocPortal output, the documents are uploaded on Avaya Documentation Center automatically.
Before you begin
Open the publication in Publication Manager.
  1. Click the Output tab.
  2. Click New on the toolbar.
  3. On the Select Output Format dialog box, select the output format for the publication, and then click Next.
    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
    Use output formats that start with Avaya such as Avaya Book, AvayaDocPortal, and Avaya HTML, except Validator PDF.
  4. In the Add Publication Output dialog, click en-us in Language combination.
  5. To publish outputs for languages other than English, in the Fallback languages section, select en-us in Topics and maps, images, and Resources fields.
  6. To publish an output with draft markings, select the Use draft output format check box.
    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
    If you select draft output format, Tridion Docs includes any draft-comments, change tracking. With change tracking, in the PDF format, you can see added, modified, and deleted text highlighted in different colors, and change bars in the left margin.
    Important:
    This step does not apply for the AvayaDocPortal output.
  7. To hide line numbers, watermark, and draft comments, select the following check boxes:
    • Hide draft watermark
    • Hide line numbers
    • Hide draft comments
    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
    Important:
    This step does not apply for the AvayaDocPortal output.
  8. To compare the changes that you made from an earlier version of the publication, in Differences with version, select a version.
    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
    Important:
    This step does not apply for the AvayaDocPortal output.
  9. Click OK.