Tech Tip: Publish More Than One Repository to the Same Location in Plus 8
December 1st, 2008 Comment on this articleWhen you publish a set of entries with Laserfiche Plus, the Plus publisher will create a ‘published package’ that contains your published repository and the files necessary to view it. Plus 8 introduces the ability to add more than one published repository to a single published package. The repository will be created with one Viewer but multiple repository folders. When the user launches the published package, the Viewer will allow them to choose any of the repositories included in that package.
This option is very useful if you want to break your published entries up into individual categories for easier location, or to limit repository size for performance reasons but want to publish many files to a single disc. For example, you can publish both your “Accounting” and “Human Resources” volumes to the same DVD by publishing each one as a separate published repository in the same package. Alternately, if you want to publish both a “Purchase Orders” folder and a “Supplemental Materials” folder, but they both contain tens of thousands of files, you might publish each one as a separate repository as a part of the same package. This allows you to include all the information you need without making any individual repository very large.
To publish more than one repository to the same location, you should choose to publish the repositories to a temporary directory. Publish the first repository to a particular folder, and then publish the next repository to the same folder, and so on until you have published all of the repositories. (Be sure not to delete the existing data from the path, as this will remove the previously-published repositories.) When a user launches the Viewer for this published package, they will be presented with all of the repositories published to the same location. It’s important to give the repositories descriptive names so that users know which published repository to open to find a particular file.
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