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Publishing Information

The huge amount of knowledge that can be acquired when using the APIS IQ-Software is best accessed and searched with the IQ-Explorer. But sometimes, part of the information must be presented to third parties which need not necessarily have access to the original data or are even denied access. In these situations, it is crucial to be able to print some or all of the data as conveniently as possible or to publish the data to the intranet.

These requirements are implemented by the Presentation Print and the Web Publisher; publishing for the web can also be automatic.

Presentation Print

Presentation Print allows you to print a collection of documents in one batch on one or more output devices. To do this you first define the views, their contents and - in case of print – the output device(s) that should be used in the print batch. The information is organized hierarchically for easier selection. For every entry, settings can be stored (e.g. font, header and footer settings).

The grouped editors (views) can be linked to one or more sets of data. e.g. structure trees, forms, failure nets and function nets.

The configuration of views, contents and output devices (print jobs) can be named, saved and are thus available for quick future reuse. When reusing a named print job, the current contents of the document(s) are used. This guarantees that your printed documents are always kept up to date no matter how large they are.

For the Presentation Print any installed printer can be used for all selected editors. It may also be a PDF printer.

Web Publisher

The Web Publisher creates an indexed website (example website - the example was created form the provided example file). The website has in integrated text search feature. Using the index page each single view can be accessed directly. Moreover the web pages (contents) are grouped by their type (e.g. failures, preventive and detective measures) and linked to the locations in the documents where the corresponding contents can be found.

Automated Publishing

The CARM Server can store and schedule jobs for the Web Publisher as well as the Presentation Print. The job schedule can be defined by the administrator. It is also possible to define source and destination directories independently. Thus all FMEA data accessible to the server can be published.

The server ensures that files only get republished if the source file has been changed and new timestamps exists. Thus completely automated reports can be stored in the company network on a daily basis. For audits, meetings and other sharing, it is only necessary to have access to the destination folders used by the server.