Publishing
Heretto CCMS includes several publishing engines that enable you to produce highly customizable deliverables.
Do placeholders show when I publish content?
No, the placeholder buttons and the associated text don't show when published. They're a part the Content Editor interface that offers guidance and provides quick access to common elements. Think of placeholders as reminders for elements that are typically used in a given topic type.
It's common for Heretto CCMS customers to specify their own set of buttons and configurations to meet their specific authoring needs. Heretto CCMS is highly configurable, so just let us know if you want different placeholder text and buttons.
Can Heretto CCMS produce Word output?
Out of the box, you can use the DITA Open Toolkit to publish to RTF, which Microsoft® Word is capable of opening. You can also find other, open-source plugins capable of producing DOCX. We recommend using the Elovirta DOCX plugin.
Heretto Publishing Overview
Heretto CCMS offers several publishing options that enable you to transform content to various formats and deliver it to different endpoints. Some of them, like Heretto PDF Generator or the DITA-OT Cloud integration, are an integral part of the CCMS. Others, like Heretto Portal and Heretto Deploy API, are separate products.
Most of the publishing options that are an integral part of the CCMS are cloud publishing engines. Cloud publishing engines use cloud computing to publish content in a secure, temporary cloud container. As a result, publishing operations do not affect the performance of the CCMS.
The cloud publishing infrastructure is separate from the CCMS infrastructure. New versions of cloud publishing engines are released separately from CCMS versions and are deployed to customers immediately after they are released.
Heretto Portal and Heretto Deploy API are separate products and are not part of cloud publishing.
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PDF Generator (cloud publishing engine) |
A fast publishing engine based on the Prince formatter (formerly Prince XML) that enables you to develop publishing templates directly in Heretto CCMS. This is an integral part of the CCMS. |
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DITA-OT Cloud (cloud publishing engine) |
The DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) is a mature open-source DITA publishing engine that enables you to publish content to a large number of output formats. This is an integral part of the CCMS. |
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With third-party plugins:
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Docusaurus (deprecated, cloud publishing engine) |
Deliver content to a Docusaurus-built site hosted on Netlify or generate a static Docusaurus site that you can preview locally and deploy on your own. This is an integral part of the CCMS. |
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Webhooks (CCMS API) |
Webhooks enable you to send notifications from Heretto CCMS to trigger various actions on external servers. With webhooks, external servers may pull DITA or published data from Heretto CCMS. This is an integral part of the CCMS. |
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Heretto Portal (portal platform) |
Instantly render and deliver content to a customizable, modern documentation portal website. This is a separate product from the CCMS. For details, see Heretto Portal at a Glance. |
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Heretto Deploy API (portal API) |
Deliver content stored in your CCMS to any custom app through a headless technology. This is a separate product from the CCMS. For details, see Deploy API Introduction. |
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