Publish to a local or network Directory

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In addition to publishing to a web or ftp server, Document! X and HelpStudio can publish your generated output to a local or network directory. This can be particularly useful in Continuous Integration environments where you wish to copy a built and tested compiled help output for inclusion in a build process. Publishing to a network path can also be useful for situations where you are making some internal content available only on the local network and not a web server.

Creating a Directory Publishing Target

In the Document! X and HelpStudio Build Profile Editor, select the Publishing page;
Click the New toolbar button;
On the displayed New Publishing Target dialog, choose the File System Directory option;
A new File System Directory Publishing Target will be created and opened for edit;
In the Directory field, Identify the target directory to which content should be published.

The Target Url field is the url at which the content is located once it has been deployed. This setting is not required for successful publishing, but it will allow the publishing results to show a convenient link to open the published content once the publishing is complete.

Note: Only specify the root url and not the landing page - i.e. http://myhost.mydomain.com/ and not http://myhost.mydomain.com/webframe.html