Reviewing & publishing resources

The following procedures detail how to perform each step of the publishing workflow.

This task shows you how to:

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Publishing workflow description

Enable the publishing workflow

Before you begin: This procedure explains how the Exalead CloudView administrator enables a standard publishing workflow in the Business Console.
  1. The Exalead CloudView administrator assigns Linguist and Business administrator roles to users. For more information, see Default Roles in the Exalead CloudView Administration Guide
  2. In the Administration Console, the Exalead CloudView administrator must create and deploy the semantic resources that will be defined in the Business Console. The requirements depend on the semantic resource type, for details, see the Exalead CloudView Configuration Guide
  3. In the Business Console, the Exalead CloudView administrator must enable the publishing work­flow by selecting Misc > Configuration > Semantic Resources > Enable approval workflow.

Submit for validation

Before you begin: If you do not have Administrator rights, after completing the resource changes, you may submit the resource for validation.
  1. In Semantic > Resources, select the resource to submit and then select Review & Publish.
  2. Under Submit for approval, click the Submit button.

The resource now has the status Submitted for approval and will be locked until it is approved.

Review a single resource

Before you begin: You must have Business administrator rights to review resources.
  1. In Semantic > Resources, select the resource to review and then select Review & Publish.
  2. Under the Approval section, click Review changes.

    This displays the proposed changes for the current version of the resource file. Only the differences are shown on what has changed since the last approval for the given resource.



  3. From here, you can:
    • Approve changes – this approves the changes for the selected resource only
    • Reject changes – this unlocks the resource file for further editing
    • Decide later – do nothing and close this window

Review several resources

Before you begin: You must have Business administrator rights to review resources.
  1. In Semantic > Resources, select the resources to be reviewed and click the Review resources button.

    This displays the proposed changes for the current version of the resource file(s). Only the differences are shown on what has changed since the last approval for the given resource.



  2. From here, you can:
    • Approve ALL changes – (available only when more than one resource is selected) this approves the changes for all the selected resources.
    • Approve changes – this approves the changes for the selected resource only
    • Reject changes – this unlocks the resource file for further editing
    • Decide later – do nothing and close this window

Publish the resources

Before you begin: You must have CloudView Administrator rights to publish resources.
  1. In the Business Console, click Go Live.
  2. If one or more resources are have been modified, you will be prompted with a list of mod­ified resources. You can select the resources you want to publish.
  3. Click Accept.

This deploys the resource to all hosts and sets the resources to Published.

View and manage resources history

The Exalead CloudView administrator can specify the number of versions that will be kept in history in Misc > Configuration > Semantic Resources > Max versions kept.

  1. In Semantic > Resources, select a resource and go to the History tab.
  2. This tab allows you to:
    • View resource versions.
    • Download specific versions of a resource in all supported formats (xml, xls, csv). Once downloaded, you can edit the content of the file into a simple editor like Excel, and import the modified content back using the Edit tab Import file button.
    • Rollback to a specific version. Rollback operations completely overwrite the content of draft versions. If the resource was not in draft status, it will turn to draft after the rollback operation.