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The created publication can be a planned publication. For that to be the case, the publication directory can only contain two files: publication.properties and description.rdf. Additionally, file publication.properties can contain the publication.publishingDatekey, the value of which should be the planned date of publication. The allowed date format is: rrrr yyyy-MM-dd, where rrrr where yyyy means the year, mm  MM – month, and and dd – day.

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Defining the Location of a Publication

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