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# The Asset Publishing Process

Publishing an asset from Katana performs the following steps:

| 1. | Pre-Publish

Takes identifying information from you (for example which show, shot, asset and version) and passes that information to the asset plug-in. The plug-in returns an Asset ID - in the form of a string - to use in the Publish step.

| 2. | Publish

Katana passes the Asset ID returned at the Pre-Publish stage to the asset management system, which resolves that ID to a file path. Katana generates the asset, and saves it to the resolved path.

| 3. | Post-Publish

The asset management system handles storing the asset, and returns the Asset ID actually applied, which can be different to the one supplied in the Pre-Publish step. Katana uses that Asset ID from then on to identify the current version of the asset.