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In general, users will access a Cradle database through a Cradle web UI or a\u00a0 non-web UI such as WorkBench<\/a>.<\/p>\n There are situations where direct access is not possible, particularly if the users are remote from the database and do not have any external electronic access, of if the data is classified and cannot be sent across a public network, such as the Internet, even if the connections are secured.<\/p>\n In such cases, database information is normally published into one or more documents that are provided to the external users. This works well, except that documents are linear, a sequence of pages, and it is not always easy to explore their contents. This is particularly true for analysis and design models where there are many connections between the models’ components, and also when following cross references between items.<\/p>\n The Web Publisher<\/strong> tool generates a static website containing some or all of the items in a database. This website contains three types of page<\/a>:<\/p>\n The pages for individual items contains lists of links to related items of each type, grouped by the type of cross reference.<\/p>\n Diagrams are published as SVG so they can be zoomed, panned and scrolled. All diagram symbols are hyperlinked to lower-level diagrams and to the symbols’ descriptions in specifications and data definitions.<\/p>\n So the pages for individual items are connected by hyperlinks in the same way that the database items are connected by cross references.<\/p>\n Users can follow these hyperlinks to explore the information in any way that is convenient to them.<\/p>\n By being static, the website is fully independent of Cradle. By being read-only, the websites can be distributed on CD or DVD, In effect, the website is a self-contained snapshot of the parts of the database that you have chosen to publish.<\/p>\n User-defined criteria specify the item types, and items of these types, to be published from the database. The form and content of the website’s main page can be controlled with a user-defined template. The tables for each item type have user-defined columns and contain any attributes. The pages for items have individual user-defined templates so that the layout and attributes to be published can be controlled.<\/p>\nWebsite Pages<\/h3>\n
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Website Links<\/h3>\n
Website Distribution<\/h2>\n
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