Running the Publisher
The following steps are provided to use the Publisher for Rhapsodyâ„¢ graphical user interface.
Silent mode as well as more user configuration settings are available and defined in the Administration Guide.
- Ensure the Rhapsody model that you want to publish is open.
- Run the publisher.exe
- Double click on the Rhapsody to MagicDraw service.
- Select Next > on the Rhapsody Input Model interface as shown in the figure below.

- Name and select the MagicDraw output model destination. Then select Next >.

- User Configuration
- Select whether to preserve the Rhapsody coloring and formatting or default to the target tool defaults.
- Select the checkbox to generate publisher element and diagram counts into the log output folder.
- Then select Finish.

- User configuration is available through the user interface, the display.properties and publisher.properties files.
Configuration of the display.properties and publisher.properties is defined in the Administration Guide.
- Monitor the progress Refer to section on Monitoring Progress.

- Successful Completion. MagicDraw project file is located in the selection location.

If error messages are displayed, follow the user interface instructions for guided configuration as shown in the figures below:
- Rhapsody OMROOT is not correct in the publisher.ini file. Refer to the Installation Guide for detailed instructions to obtain the Share drive location and assign this value.
- Rhapsody is not open to a project