Add FTP Publishing Destination

The Add FTP 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 you to connect to an FTP server for use as a publishing destination.

Access

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

Options/Controls

Name

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

FTP Account

• Server Name - enter the server name or select it from the drop-down.
• User Name - enter your username or select it from the drop-down.
• Password - enter the password required to access the FTP server.

Location

• Directory - click the button to open the Choose a Folder in dialog then navigate to and select the desired folder.

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 an HTML format.
• Test Connection - after all of the FTP server information has been entered, click this option to ensure that the information has been entered correctly and the connection works.