Define Profile Options to Publish Items

If you're publishing over 1000 items or records, you can consider changing the values of the publication profile options to optimize the publication process.

Caution: These profile options control all publication processes. Use care when and if you modify these settings.

You can control of the size of the publication payload to match the requirements of applications and processes. To control the payload size, use the Manage Advanced Item Profile Options task in the Setup and Maintenance work area to modify the values of one or more of these profile options:

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, use the Manage Advanced Item Profile Options task:

   • Offering: Product Management

   • Functional Area: Items

   • Task: Manage Advanced Item Profile Options

2. Update one or more of the profile options in this table:

   Profile Option Code	Profile Option Name	Purpose
   EGI_PUBLICATION_ITEMS_PER_PAYLOAD	Number of Items per Payload for Publication	Number of items in each XML file. This profile option determines the number of items to be used per payload in the publication process. The predefined value is 100.
   EGI_PUBLICATION_NUMBER_OF_PAYLOADS	Number of Parallel Payloads for Publication	Number of scheduled subprocesses that are launched in the extraction process. This profile option determines the number of parallel payloads to be used in the publication process. The predefined value is 10.
   EGI_PUBLICATION_SIZE_OF_ZIP_FILE	Size of the Publication Payload File in Megabytes	This profile option controls the overall size of the payload Zip file, in megabytes. The payload Zip file can contain more than one XML file for the item object. This profile option lets you chunk large publication jobs into multiple XML files. This profile option controls the overall size of the payload Zip file. The predefined value is 500.