Integration of Open Toolkit with Jenkins

[Rodrik]

We would like to integrate the Open Toolkit with Jenkins so that we can better control the documentation build process.

From what I've read this is not too difficult for someone with some experience of Jenkins and Ant scripts (not me) but I was wondering if running the Open Toolkit on DITA files stored in SharePoint is likely to be a significant hurdle.

My understanding is that by default the Open Toolkit can only handle local files and that Oxygen has implemented some special handling of SharePoint files. Is this functionality tightly integrated with Oxygen or is it something one could (legitimately) employ as part of an integration with Jenkins?

Regards

Rodrik

[Radu]

Hi Rodrik,

The DITA OT only has support to publish content which it considers to be on the local disk drive.

Oxygen indeed has a feature which allows it to bring content locally to a temporary files folder before the DITA OT gets to process it but this feature is only available when running the publishing from Oxygen. So this would not be an option.

What you could do would be maybe to map the sharepoint webdav folder of the project to a local drive letter (is can be done in Windows, maybe also in Linux). This would mean that the operating system would see this folder as a local folder and the DITA OT would also be able to publish content from it.

Regards,
Radu

[Rodrik]

Hi Radu

That's what I suspected. Thank you for the Webdav suggestion.

Regards

Rodrik