Publishing Group Run

After creating publishing groups, the next step is to add products to them. You do this with the Publishing Group Run option.

To define a publishing group run:

1. Select Distribution | Publishing Run to display the Publishing Group Run Selection window. Publishing groups that have been combined into publishing group runs are listed in the top portion of the window.

   
2. Click the Add Publishing Group Run icon () and complete the fields described in the table below.

   Field	Type	What to enter
   PUBLISHING GROUP	setup	Select the publishing group you want to add to the publishing group run for.
   PRODUCT	setup	Select the product you want to add to this publishing group. Note: All publications within a publishing group must share the same “Cutoff By Edition” setting in Publication setup. Either all must be set to “y” or all must be set to “n.”
   COMBINE BUNDLE	predefined	Specify how you want the products to be combined on the bundle top. You have the following options: None. Nothing will be combined on the distribution documents; a separate set of documents will be produced for each product. This option is useful if you want to start the publishing run for multiple products at the same time, but do not want them combined in any way. Logical. The bundle tops for each product will be interspersed. For example, Route 999 for publication “Star” will be printed first, followed by Route 999 for publication “Tribune”, followed by Route 1000 for publication “Star”, and so on. Physical. All products in the group will use the same bundle top. Multi packs will be identified with an asterisk (*) and their draw combined (note that multi packs require additional setup using the Multi Pack and Multi Pack Bundle options). The bundle top will include the total weight for the route. Note: When using the “Physical” option, in order for a route’s delivered products to be included on the same bundle top, they must have the same carrier, edition, truck, drop drop order, insert package, print key bundle setting and (for single copy routes) draw class. When products are combined on a single bundle top, the appearance of bundle tops may differ from when products are not combined physically.
   PRIMARY PRODUCT FOR PUBLISHING RUN	yes/no	Flag this field if the Business Rules for this product should be used for the publishing group documents. For example, if the Business Rule, Should returns print on the bundle top?, is set to “Yes” for publication A and “No” for publications B and C, and publication A is primary, then returns will print on bundle tops for the publishing group. Only one product can be flagged as primary for a certain publishing group.

3. Click OK to save the publishing group selection.