Folio - Create Rendition and Store for View

Question

Hi,
Has anybody created a mechanism so that a Rendition of a Folio can be created and stored to allow subsequent viewing?
The scenario is where a folio may contain 100+ pages of content. If a user creates a PDF rendition, the concept is that it should be created once and then viewed as a download by many users rather than each user creating the rendition and downloading.
Regards, Dave

Answer 1

Hi,
Yes, that security consideration is a good point. For the particular implementation I am looking at, all of the items within one Folio will have the same security settings. So it will not be an issue in this particular case.
Yes, download and then check back in of the rendered folio is effectively what will happen, but from a user's perspective it will be automated. The key benefit, is being able to quickly get to the rendered item if it exists rather than having to wait for the rendering process to execute.
Another consideration is that the rendered folio, once checked into the content server needs to be excluded from the full text index, otherwise it will be duplicating the information in the items that make up the folio content.