Publish Profiles for Different Projects

[George5E9B]

Version: 2022.3.93

I am publishing multiple projects to a local network webserver (frameless output). Each project output is hosted in a separate folder on the server (Root/Project1, Root/Project2, Root/Project3, etc). Is it possible for there to be a different publish profile for each project? I was surprised when:

1) I used the publishing feature to update one project output and it dumped files from that output into the directory for another project (i.e, Publish Root/Project1 and output ends up in Root/Project1 and Root/Project2 ).

2) I edited the Publish Profile in one project, and the profile edit was applied to both Project 1 and Project 2.

Bug, or am I simply not understanding how publish profiles work?

Thanks,

Geo.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Don't use it myself, but here's Peter's page about it - https://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/rh_tour/rh2022/outputs/publishing.htm 

[George5E9B]

Thank you. On reviewing Peter's page, it looks like it's by design, and you have to create multiple profiles to publish to different destinations.
"Once your publish locations have been set up, they will be listed when you click Publish in your preset and will be available to all your projects."
I will say that creating new profiles is a bit hidden in the UI. 

Thanks for the response! (and Peter for the assist)

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Yes, I believe it's been like that (one profile per destination) since its introduction way back when. You have to envision publishing as just "generating & transferring the output" all in one step; if I generate to different folders, I use separate Presets - and I copy to separate destinations.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Question - if it's a local network webserver, can you access it through File Explorer? If so, what method are you using to transfer the output content to the destination?

[Peter Grainge]

When you create a publish profile it will appear in all your projects. In your case create different profiles for each project and name them in a way that makes it clear which one to use when.

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