How to publish Website to Internet (WWW) directory

Stevie Ray · Messages: 4 Offline

Really need some help here. Our team is across North America and we need to share process flow documentation over Web. This looks like a good app for this except...

1. I do not understand the "Process Server" tab and there is no help I could find.

2. I cannot see how I can publish to an internet folder.

3. Publishing to a desktop folder and uploading via FTP does not appear to work, presumeably because the URLS are not appropriate.

4. Attachment file URLs appear to be static from the original source which is no good for interent publication.

Any help would be appreciated. Good tool, with some nice features, but help is rather thin (including context sensitive, etc.).

Stevie

Mary Ann Smith · Messages: 33 Offline

Stevie,

Thanks very much for your interest in our software. What you have described in your post is part of the base functionality of our Process Repository product.

If you are using our Process Repository, the "Process Server" tab you mentioned in your post allows you to connect your Process Modeler to the repository to:

- Check-in and check-out your process maps/models from a centrally managed server.

- Automatically keep track of revisions/versions as you make changes to your process maps.

- Publish HTML versions of your process maps to the Web with just a single mouse-click.

- Control access to published process maps and related documentation (you can decide who can view, edit, comment, review, approve, etc.)

- Search the full details of all of your process maps, sub-processes, and related documents.

These are just a few of the features of the Process Repository. I would be more than happy to schedule a demo with you this week. I will follow up this post with a direct email to you.

Best regards,

-Andy Ibbotson
Synthis Corporation

Mary Ann Smith · Messages: 33 Offline

One more quick comment. We have extensive documentation for our Process Repository describing, in detail, all of the capabilities of the "Process Server" tab. However, that documentation is housed in our password protected "Customer Portal".

For anyone interested in getting a walk through of the capabilities of our Process Repository and Portal products, sign up for one of our weekly webinars or contact us directly to schedule an interactive Web conference.

Best regards,

-Andy Ibbotson
Synthis Corporation

Stevie Ray · Messages: 4 Offline

Thank you Andrew. I have discovered through trial and error that if one wants to place a project map website on the web it can be done as follows:

Create new web folder
Add .htaccess file with contents

Code:

 AddType text/css .css
 AddType text/html .html
 AddType application/x-javascript .js
 DirectoryIndex index.html

Password protect the directory
Upload files in website folder to new web folder

This will provide remote hosting of a copy of the diagram website. It does not, however, address these functional requirements:

1. Linked in documents will not be linked
2. Revision control (check in and out) is absent
3. Remote access is essentially read-only

That said, it does provide for the basic function of distributed access via the internet, which is what I want as a startin point.

Posted here in cae anyone else has the same desire. This is very useful software, but it appears to have been functionally restricted by disallowing use of alternative document management systems.

Comments welcome.

Stevie Ray · Messages: 4 Offline

It turns out that there is a way to link to documents that are stored in a separate repository, though the link function freezes when you do it.

I have linked a Process Map to files in a different repository by embedding the links - hard coded (i.e. http://www....)into the link information field. This works, and the required files will be accessible through the diagram to the repository IF one is logged into both and the repository uses cookies to validate the user.

This approach enables use of Synthis product with any repository and repository-based check-in and out on the linked documents with adequate (though not ideal) security. It does not cover off the requirement to maintain version control over the model iteself.

If you are going to do this be careful to ensure that all directories are properly secured.

Solved 99% of my issues now. nice to know it can be done.