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worksheets are simply included as examples to make it easier for you to
set up your own Publisher worksheet.
To make one of the Publisher worksheets active you need to rename it to
be called ‘Publisher’.
The values you put into column B of the Publisher worksheet control the
Batch Publisher. Each setting is described below. Not all of them are
mandatory. Note that the default settings make use of the shape files
supplied with the InstantAtlas software.
The settings of row 2 to row 18 are identically in all four example Publisher
worksheets (Figure 148).
Figure 148
Publish: this can either be set to ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ according to whether you
wish to use the Batch Publisher or not.
Update Files Only: this should be left blank if you wish to Publish a new
set of reports. If you only want to update the data files in a set of already
published reports, you should set this property to ‘Yes’. The data files will
be saved into subfolders of the destination folder if these subfolders have
the same name as the split values.
Publisher Folder: the full pathname for the folder in which the command-
line interface publisher executable (iapcmd.exe) is located.
In all example Publisher worksheets this is:
‘C:\Program Files\GeoWise\InstantAtlas’.
Publisher Executable: the name of the command line version of the
Publisher. This should always be ‘iapcmd.exe’
Area Selection: This should be set to ‘Data’ if you wish the reports to only
include the base geography features which are part of the respective split
value. If you wish to display a map for all the areas of the base geography
map file (not just for those that will show data in your report) use ‘Base’.
Project File: If you have all setting for your batch reports already saved in
an InstantAtlas Publisher project file you can enter the full path to this file
here. The settings from the project file will override all other settings of the
Publisher worksheet with exception of the data file (or demo data) which
got selected in the Publisher when creating the project file. The data will
be the data from within your Excel workbook.
Template: the full pathname for the template you wish to use. The
templates are archives (zip) located in the ‘templates’ folder which was
created as part of your InstantAtlas installation. The location of this folder
depends upon your operating system.