Setting up to publish Implementation Guides

Check Java

• Make sure you have a java VM in your computer. A JRE will do. OpenJDK works.
  • in a command line, run

java -version

you should have a result like

java version "1.8.0_60"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_60-b27)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.60-b23, mixed mode)

Install Jekyll

• Windows:
  • https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/windows/
  • you will have to install ruby - the installation instructions include that

Setup your computer folders

• Create a folder in your computer for work on this and other implementationguides. For example inside your Windows "Documents" folder:

c:\users\<user>\Documents\ImplementationGuides

• Create a folder for your first implementation guide:

c:\users\<user>\Documents\ImplementationGuides\my-first-ig

Get an empty IG to start

• Download this file: https://github.com/hl7-be/empty-ig/archive/master.zip
• Extract the contents of the folder inside this zip (empty-ig-master) to the corresponding folder.
• At the end, you should have a file

 c:\users\<user>\Documents\ImplementationGuides\my-first-ig\_genonce.bat

• you should NOT have a folder and then the files - this is unwanted:

c:\users\<user>\Documents\ImplementationGuides\empty-ig-master\my-first-ig\_genonce.bat

• • You can later add more implementation guides to the same folder. For example when you have 3 implementation guides, `hl7-be`, `my-first-ig`, `ehealth-ig`, you can have a folder structure like

 c:\users\<user>\Documents\ImplementationGuides
      \hl7-be
      \my-first-ig
      \ehealth-ig

Download the publisher and update the scripts

• Run (by double-clicking or executing in a command line) the file

 _updatePublisher.bat

• Answer Y to the questions

This will download the publisher to your computer (in this case, to the input-cache folder).

• Confirm that there is a file called publisher.jar in the input-cache folder, for example

c:\users\<user>\Documents\ImplementationGuides\my-first-ig\input-cache

Publish the ImplementationGuide

• Run (by double-clicking or executing in a command line) the file

_genOnce.bat

You will see a lot of progress indicators. This should take 1 to 5 minutes, depending on your machine. If you have an error, reach out, we'll figure it out.

Check the result

• After an implementation guide build runs locally, the output is in the folder .\output. Open (in a browser) the file

output\index.html

Optional: copy the publisher jar to the parent folder

Every time you get an Implementation Guide, you need to run the _updatePublisher. If you do this, you will get the same publisher jar (100 mb) in every one of your Implementation Guides' input-cache folder If you run or maintain several Implementation Guides, you may want to use only one Publisher Jar, instead of many. To do this, you only have to copy the file

 publisher.jar

to the parent folder above your implementation guide. In our example, copy the publisher.jar from the input-cache folder to the folder

c:\users\<user>\Documents\ImplementationGuides

If you do this, you will no longer need to run the _updatePublisher every time you download an implementation guide