Optional Configurations for Heretto CCMS Publishing

Heretto CCMS offers a number of publishing options that can be enabled for different publishing engines, like DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) Cloud or PDF Generator.

These publishing options are optional. To enable them, contact your Customer Success Manager or the Heretto support team.


Publishing option	Description	Presentation in UI	DITA-OT Cloud	PDF Generator	Docusaurus
Include source language metadata in locales	Include Heretto CCMS metadata and taxonomy-driven attributes present in source language files in the related target language DITA-OT outputs, like HTML.	Not present	✓
Compare versions of the same publication	Add an option to the publishing interface that enables you to compare versions of the same publication that live on different branches or in different releases.	Compare to option with a drop-down in the publishing interface	✓
Control how tracked changes are included in output	Add an option that enables you to control what should happen with tracked changes (suggestions) present in content upon publication. This option applies only to output. Tracked changes in your content are not affected when you use this option.	Track changes option with a drop-down in the publishing interface	✓ Available options: Ignore tracked changes Publish with tracked changes applied to content	✓ Available options: Ignore tracked changes Publish with tracked changes applied to content Print tracked changes highlights in the output
Webhooks: Initiate a manual NotifyPull API call	Available only for when webhooks are configured. Adds the Notify button in the publishing interface to initiate a manual NotifyPull API call.	Webhooks option with a drop-down in the publishing interface	✓	✓
Run preflight checks	Options: manual Users can run preflight checks on demand. automatic Preflight checks run every time users open the publishing interface. mandatory Users must resolve any identified issues before they will be able to publish.	User interface varies based on preflight check option configured	✓	✓	✓

Compare Versions of the Same Publications with DITA-OT

Heretto CCMS has an optional configuration that enables you to compare versions of the same publication that are available on different branches or in different releases. This option only works with PDF output type in DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) 2.5.x or higher publishing scenarios. To enable it, contact your Customer Success Manager or the Heretto support team.

All users with publishing permissions can compare versions of the same publications by using a DITA-OT scenario.

In the Content Library, click a map and in the right pane select Output > Publish.
From the list on the left, select a DITA-OT publishing scenario.
Optional: In the Enter description field, add a meaningful description of the publishing job.
Once you publish the document, you can see that description in the list of completed publishing jobs.
From the Compare to drop-down menu , select a branch or release to compare to the current content.
Set the rest of the publishing parameters.
Click Publish.
The resource publishes in the In progress section. A progress bar provides details about the publishing process.
Download a ZIP file with all publication-related resources by hovering over the publishing job and clicking Download .

Figure 1. Successfully Completed Publishing Job

The PDF output file highlights content differences with red and green.

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