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There are options for selective publishing, publishing by role, and skipping advanced options.

Selective Publishing

You can choose to publish the entire outline or just the items you selected in the outline. If you are publishing to a format which has a table of contents, such as a Player package, a training guide, or an instructor manual, your results may differ depending on what you have selected and what you have open in the Outline Editor. Note the following:

The entire hierarchy of sections and modules above the selection is included, in a direct line up to the highest level of the outline.
The name of the highest level in the hierarchy, that is, the name that appears on the tab of the document window you are publishing from, will appear in the title bar of the Player, and on the title page for the Training and Instructor Manuals.

For example, you have Topic 1 and Topic 2, both of which are contained in Section A. Section A is in turn contained in Module 1. You open the Module 1 document in the Outline Editor, select Topic 1, and choose to publish only that topic to a Player package. After publishing, in the Player window, Module A will appear in the title bar of the window, Section A appears as the highest level in the outline pane on the left, and Topic 1 appears below Section A. If, however, you open the Section A document in the Outline Editor and publish only Topic 1 to a Player Package, Section A appears in the title bar of the resulting Player Package and the outline pane contains only Topic 1.

Publish by Role

You can choose to publish by roles to filter content. If you have roles assigned to the content you are publishing, the Publish by roles option is available. When you select it, the Select Roles button becomes available, which opens the Select Roles dialog box. The list of roles includes only the roles available for the content you are publishing. You can select as many roles as desired. Only the items in the selected content that are associated with the specified roles will be included in the published output.

Note: Roles are not available when content is played through a Learning Management System. The user never sees the Player interface, as the LMS creates its own outline for the content. You can still use roles to filter the content that gets published, however.

Multi-user Considerations

Publish by States
In a multi-user environment, you also have the option to publish by states. This allows you to filter the content to publish only those items that are indicated as ready. When you select the Publish by states option, the Select States button becomes available. In the Select States dialog box, you can select the states to publish as desired. Only the items in the selected content that are associated with the specified states will be published. If you specify roles as well as states, only items that meet all the specified criteria will be published. Items with no state assigned will always be excluded. If you select the Publish by state option and then do not choose any states, you will be notified that you have made an invalid selection.

Skip Advanced Options

There is an option to skip the Advanced Options page. When it is disabled, the Advanced Options page appears next in the Publishing Wizard. In addition, your choice for this setting becomes the default until you change it again.

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