Generating and Scheduling Builds

If you are associated with projects in Central, you can open the Builds view of the Projects page. From here, you can manually build targets (such as HTML5, PDF, and others), or you can schedule targets to be generated. If you are using branching, you can build output for a specific branch.

One of the advantages of using Central for your translation needs is that you can easily create single language output (i.e., one target is generated for each language) or multilingual output (i.e., one target is generated for multiple languages). See Generating Translated Output.

How to Generate a Target Manually

1. Select Projects on the left side of the interface, then click a project name to open it.

2. At the top of the page, click Builds.

3. In the upper-right, click Create Build.

   

   The New Build wizard opens.

4. From the Branch field, select the appropriate branch. If you are not using branching, you will always be building from the master branch.

   

5. From the Target field, select the target you want to build.

   

6. Click Next.

7. (Optional) For single language output you can skip this screen, and select Next. However, if you want to build multilingual output you can select an additional language branch. See Generating Translated Output.

8. Review a summary of your build options, and click Build. If you need to adjust the options, select Back.

   A row is added to the page, showing the progress of the target as it is generated. If the target generates successfully, the color of the Progress column changes from light to dark green, and the State column displays “Complete.”

   

   If you click a build row (not the check box), the row expands, showing details about the selected build (i.e., the private URL and whether the build is associate with a site).

   

How to Schedule a Target to Be Generated

1. Select Projects on the left side of the interface, then click a project name to open it.

2. At the top of the page, click Builds.

3. At the top of the grid area, select Schedules.

   

4. In the upper-right, click Create Build Schedule.

   

   The Create Build Schedule wizard opens.

5. From the Branch field, select the appropriate branch. If you are not using branching, you will always be building from the master branch.

   

6. From the Target field, select the target you want to build.

   

7. Click Next.

8. (Optional) For single language output you can skip this screen, and select Next. However, if you want to build multilingual output you can select an additional language branch. See Generating Translated Output.

9. In the Schedule screen, complete the fields.

   • Build Every Week on Following Day(s) Click on the day(s) of the week when you want the target to be generated.

   • Time Click the field to manually enter the hour, minutes, PM or AM. Alternatively, click the little clock to the right of the field to select a time from the columns presented in the Time Picker popup. You can use the mouse wheel to rotate through the hour and minutes columns to locate the desired time.

   • Time zone Click the down arrow and choose your time zone.
   • Build only if changes detected Select this option to generate output on the specified days and times only if no changes to source files were found. If you deselect this option, the target will always be generated, even if no changes are detected in the source files.

   Example You want to schedule a target to be generated automatically. You want the target to be build every work day (Monday-Friday) at 9 p.m. Pacific time.

   However, you only want the target to be generated if a change is detected in the source files since the previous build.

   Your schedule would look something like this:

   

10. Click Next.

11. Review a summary of your scheduled build options, and click Create. If you need to adjust the options, select Back.

    A row is added to the grid, representing that scheduled build.