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Overview

A Publisher facilitates the creation of historical outputs from records collected by devices. Each Publisher instance manages its own index marker for device records collected so it doesn't republish or skip records.. Following  Following any filter rules, the Publisher operates on batches of records controlled by the index marker that are then processed by the desired output type.

Each publisher runs in a queue, meaning that only one publisher is running at any given time.  Enabled publishers will alternate turns so that each has the chance to publish some records before the next round.  

Configuration

Creating A Publisher

A Publisher can be created using any one of several methods. See Creating Objects.

Configuration

General Tab

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Publisher Tab

Output Type

The object assigned that defines the format to be used to publish. Click the  button to select or create the output type. Output types are listed below.

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• Publish all objects (Default) if you want to publish everything.
• Publish Filtered objects to only publish objects as defined in the selected Publish Filter object.

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•   *If this is selected, the Object Type to Publish and Publish Filter fields are enabled.

Object Type To Publish

*This is only enabled if "Publish Filtered Objects" is selectedThis option applies an additional filter to any filter assigned in the "Publish Filter" field.

• Meters (Default) When selected the filter will apply to meter object and meter name as defined in ACMobjects. 

• Devices  When selected the filter will apply to device

  object and device

  objects.

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  title Example:
  The applied filter searches for all meters and devices that begin with the letter "A".  If "Meters" is selected for object type, all Meter objects that begin with the letter "A" will be published regardless of their Device name.  If "Devices" is selected, all records for Devices beginning with the letter "A" will be published regardless of that device's meter name.

  
  

Publish Filter

*This is only enabled if "Publish Filtered Objects" is selected.

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Default = Not selected. If selected, the Publisher will continue publishing if a data-related error occurs. The exception is file access and invalid SQL commands - the publisher will cease publishing if it encounters these errors.

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Select this option to have the publisher log additional details about the publisher's progress through the database. It will show what range of records it's processing or whether it is caught up.