Data­base pub­lish­ing is the process by which infor­ma­tion is auto­mat­i­cally taken from one or more data sources — includ­ing any num­ber of data­bases, flat files, and images — and assem­bled into a com­plete doc­u­ment. Exam­ples of pub­li­ca­tions pro­duced by data­base pub­lish­ing include direc­to­ries, cat­a­logs, price lists, invoices, finan­cial state­ments, and reports. This chap­ter is writ­ten for those indi­vid­u­als begin­ning the process of pub­lish­ing infor­ma­tion from a data­base. It explores dif­fer­ent meth­ods of retriev­ing data (both sta­tic and dynamic) and pub­lish­ing data with FrameMaker.

An Intro­duc­tion to Data­base Pub­lish­ing in FrameMaker