EDesignData_Dlg-AmazonS3ConnectionFormAdd Amazon S3 Publishing Destination_AD

The Add Amazon S3 Publishing Destination dialog

Summary

Publishing Destinations offer the ability to publish release data for an Item Revision directly from a managed content server or Output Job to a storage space. This dialog allows provides controls to connect an Amazon S3 account to Altium NEXUS in order to use the Amazon storage space as a publishing destination.

This dialog is accessed from the Data Management - Publishing Destinations page of the Preferences dialog. Click the Add Destination button then select Amazon S3 from the drop-down menu.

Options/Controls

Name

• Name - enter a meaningful name for the publishing destination.

Amazon Web Services Account

• Account Name - enter the Account Name for your Amazon S3 account name.
• Access Key ID - enter the Access Key ID for your Amazon S3 account.
• Secret Access Key - enter the Secret Access Key for your Amazon S3 account.

Location

• Bucket - click the button and select a bucket within the Amazon S3 storage space in which to publish data.
• Key Prefix - Amazon S3's key prefix mechanism allows users to create logical groupings for objects in storage. Click the button to open the Choose a Folder in dialog to select or create a new folder with the storage area to group published data by.

Options

• Zip contents - check this option to publish data in a compressed format.
  • Use Password - check this option to require a password to extract content from the compressed file then enter the desired password in the text field below this option.
• Present contents in a Html page - check this option to present contents in HTML format.
• Test Connection - After all of the Amazon S3 account information has been entered, click this option to ensure that the information has been entered correctly and the connection works.