Overview
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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.
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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:
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So far, we can only create and update PDF publications. EPUBs and Audiobooks are not supported.
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How to configure your automationYou can configure the system to publish your content automatically in three simple steps
- Contact support@publica.la and ask for access to the AWS S3 Bucket.
- Upload your files following the naming convention(see below)
- Fill the following FORM with information about your configuration (more details below)
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Naming conventionWhen 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 anddd
two 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
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Config fileTo 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 |
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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 |