In the lower right corner of the edition editing window, one finds three buttons:
Save: clicking this button will save the edits you made. this saving involves three elements:
- Saving to your local disk
- Creating/modifying an entry for the edition in the SCORA content database
- Uploading all necessary files to the SCORA servers.
The files that are uploaded are all files that are needed to edit the edition, and to create the elements to be sent to the tablets. This includes:
- a file describing the parts in the edition, what pages in what files are combined to make a part, where the stafflines and barlines are, etc…
- All the files used in the edition. Each PDF or image file that was used from your local computer will be uploaded to the server.
This saving of all necessary files makes sure that you can continue editing of the edition on another computer.
Process: Clicking the process button prepares (and uploads to the server) the packages that will be copied to the tablets as needed. In essence this creates a zip file per defined part. This zip file holds all necessary info and PDF and image files as needed.
Publish: Clicking this button makes the edition available on the tablet for you personal use, or for everyone in the orchestra (if you are working in the role of orchestra librarian).
The separation of the saving & processing of an edition allows to edit an edition in multiple steps, even on multiple computers, and prevents the edition to be available on the tablets without it being completed.
Publishing a piece of sheet music