Publishing the Book

When you are ready to publish your book, select your publishing profile as normal. If variants have been used in a book the Publish Job Variant Assignment window is displayed. The window lists all of the criteria used by objects in the book. Select the criteria values that are appropriate for the current publishing job and complete the process.

The following rules apply when publishing books using variant objects:

• Where a value for a variant is not specified the parent object will be used.
• When publishing the book to XML, all variants with a relationship to the document are included in the XML file.

To Publish the Variant Book:

1. Select the book.
2. Choose the publishing options:
   • From the book choose Publish > Publish To, then select the output type and your profile.

     -or-

   • From the object list right-click and choose Publish To, then select your profile.

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   • From the Publishing Console select the profile, select the book you want to publish, then select Publish Now.

     If the book uses variant criteria the Publish Job Variant Assignment window is displayed.

3. Select the appropriate criteria in the Value drop-down list, or select (none) for criteria you do not want to use, then choose OK to continue.