No need to try and remember the parameters for each publication!
Once you've create a set of data and a Publishing Style Sheet for your publication, simply click on the Projects button and choose Add a New Project from the pop-up menu. The Project window looks like this:
- Enter a Project Name for your Project (for example, Telephone Directory)
- Optionally enter a brief description
- Click on Add a new Step to create a Project Step:
- Enter a name for this Step and, optionally, a brief description
- Choose a Set of data to publish (in the example shown below, we've created a set of data called All Photographers, which includes all the active entries in the Photographers table)
- Choose a Publishing Style Sheet
- The default Publishing Destination for that Publishing Style sheet is selected. Change it if you want to use a different destination for this Project Step.
The following options can be ignored if you are publishing to an ODBC source such as a MySql or SqlServer database
- Click on the Select a Folder button to choose a folder in which to save the file that will be created (note: if you don't do this, the file will be saved into a folder called Data Exports on your desktop).
- Enter a name for the file that will be created
- Select one of the radio buttons: Replace existing file to delete the old version and re-create it each time, or Create numbered version to retain old versions and create a sequentially numbered one each time the data is published
- Click the Save button (green checkmark) to save the Project STep
- Add more Project Steps if you need to
A completed Publishing Project might look like this:
You can change the order of the Steps by dragging them up and down in the list.
Publishing your Data
When you are ready to publish your data, you now only have to click one button to accomplish the job:
On the main window, click on the Publish Data button and choose your Publishing Project from the pop-up menu.
That's it! CatBase will then publish your data to a text file. Simply open up your page layout template and import that text file into it.