Run Prepare to Publish

Use the Prepare to Publish option to prepare your assembly for publishing.

To prepare to publish:

  1. On the action toolbar, choose Prepare to Publish.
  2. On the Prepare to Publish dialog box, select the options you want to perform for the publication.
    Option Description
    Publishing Output Channel: The Electronic output only is available for eCTD 4.0 assemblies.
    Generate Missing Renditions and Extractions: You must have a license for Ennov InSight rendering and publishing services to generate missing renditions.
    Option Description

    Remove Empty

    Assembly Folders:

    		 This removes any empty folder elements from the assembly.
    Remove Empty Assembly Leafs: This removes any leaf elements that have no content from the assembly. It skips reference leaf elements and elements with metadata.
    Prepare Cross-Reference Leafs: This ensures that the checksum is correct and is available when you are publishing any cross-reference leafs that point to content outside of the current sequence.
    Refresh Publishing Readiness Data: This refreshes the information in the Publishing Readiness Report based on the selected output channel. To see the report, this must be run at least once.
    Refresh Link Inspector Data: This is required if you want to run the Link Inspector report. This is necessary to create in-process links or perform in-process link retargeting.
    Refresh Link Inspector View: Choose Current Sequence View Only (refreshes only the current sequence), or Entire Working Assembly (refreshes the current sequence and all previous sequences).
  3. Click OK.

    A message indicates that some of the processes may take awhile.

  4. Click OK.
  5. Choose Go To > Job Requests to check for any errors.