Overview

What it is.

Medusa Automations as we use to call it, is a service that allow us to publish your content automatically depending on certain configurations and your needs.

How it works.

The service search and retrieves files from an specific path in an AWS S3 bucket, process them and creates publications automatically according to a predefined scheadule. If triggered manually it can also update publications that have been already published.

This is a simple view about How it Works:

caution

So far, we can only create and update PDF publications. EPUBs and Audiobooks are not supported.

How to configure your automation

You can configure the system to publish your content automatically in three simple steps

1. Contact support@publica.la and ask for access to the AWS S3 Bucket.
2. Upload your files following the naming convention(see below)
3. Fill the following FORM with information about your configuration (more details below)

Naming convention

When uploading your files they should be compliant with the following naming convention:

prefix-yymmdd-xxx.pdf

Where:

• prefix: Is the short name of a some edition or short name to identify a group of the publications. Example: LT.
• yymmdd: Is the date of the file, it means, yy two digits of the year, mm two digits of the month and ddtwo digits of the day. Example: 200309.
• xxx: If a publication comprises multiple files you must add here the page number. In the case the file is a complete publication you just need to add 000

Example:
For a publication with multiple pages:

• LT-200309-001.pdf
• LT-200309-002.pdf
• LT-200309-003.pdf

If there is one file that contains all the pages, it should be something like this:

• LT-200309-000.pdf

Config file

To setup your automation, we need you to upload a file in the LINK. The file must be in the format .csv and contain the following columns:

Column	Description
Filename	Name of the file as present in the FTP
Publication name	Name of the publication
Folder	Name of the folder where the files are grouped
Prefix	Prefix of the file
Edition	Name of the edition
Publishing time	Hour when the publication must be done
Publish Days	Days when the publication must be done
Early Access from	Start of the early access time window
Early Access to	Finish of the early access time window