Release Manager concepts

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Modified by Admin on Sep 13, 2017

The Release Manager helps control the design data source and its outputs at release time and through time by taking a snapshot of the design source and generating the outputs from it.

The working environment

During the design phase, engineers work from a working repository set up. This comprises working folders containing the project specific files, and folders containing global device sheets and libraries.

Figure 1. A typical working folder setup

Project snapshot

At release time, a snapshot of the working project is taken and stored in a designated release folder

Figure 2. A snapshot of the working folder and project dependencies is stored in the release folder.

Project release outputs

Once the working project release snapshot has been taken, chosen output jobs are executed in a batch mode from it. These output jobs publish their resulting outputs in the same designated release folder if the publication is local (PDF, generated files) or to their respective destinations (paper, web, email, ...).

The release manager also allows you to create trial releases into the output directory of your choice. In this case a snapshot of the project will be taken and all output media will be produced. However, web media will not be distributed, only saved locally in the chosen directory.

Figure 3. Outputs from the snapshot are published in the release folder or on the appropriate media.