Advanced Publishing options

The Advanced Publishing options provide you greater control over what and how content is published.

Publish/Unpublish Scope
  • Publish/Unpublish Content Items (default)— (this is the default behavior)
  • Ignore failures while generating publishable content—to publish content, the Content Manager performs two steps:
    • It generates publishable content (a process known as rendering)
    • It sends the publishable content to the various publish destinations

    When you publish multiple items in one go, then by default, the Content Manager considers the rendering of these items as one closed operation, which fails if any of its parts fails. For example, if you publish a Structure Group containing ten Pages and one of those Pages fails to render, nothing gets rendered. This is not always what you want. For example, your Structure Group may contain a Page that you know contains a mistake, but you may still want to publish all the other Pages in the Structure Group regardless (without having to publish them one by one).

    Another example is the failure to publish a Component because one of the Pages on which the Component appears fails to render. In this scenario, you also do not want the failure of one Page to render to stand in the way of your publishing of your Component.

    To change this behavior of the Content Manager, select the option Ignore failures while generating publishable content, then select the maximum number of render failures you want to tolerate in the Limit number of failures to option, or clear that option to allow an infinite number of render failures.

  • Publish/Unpublish Structure Group Information—select to publish/unpublish the Structure Group hierarchy to the Content Delivery side where it is stored as a taxonomy.
Advanced Publish/Unpublish Settings
  • Override Publish/Unpublish Priorities—the Target Types you select on the left of the Publish dialog represent one or more Publication Targets. Each Publication Target has a publish priority (low, normal, or high). The publish priority determines how quickly an item is entered in the Publish Queue. Use High priority for publish or unpublish actions that are so urgent that they need to bypass the normal publishing queue; Use Low priority if you want to use the available publishing time of your servers without getting in the way of normal work. To change the publish priority of the item(s) you publish or unpublish, select Override publish/unpublish priorities and set the publish priority.
  • Also publish/unpublish in Child Publications—to publish or unpublish items in the Child Publications of the current Publication, select Also publish/unpublish in Child Publications. For more information about Child Publications and BluePrinting in general, refer to BluePrinting.
  • Abort publishing/unpublishing on all servers in case of errors—the Target Types you select on the left of the Publish dialog represent one or more Publication Targets. In its turn, each Publication Target represents one or more destinations, that is, physical publish locations such as an FTP site, a URL or a network folder. Very often, the destinations in a Publication Target represent a cluster of machines, meaning that if one of the machines is unavailable or slow, the Web site automatically switches to one of the other machines. For this purpose, it is vital that all machines (destinations) within such a Publication Target contain the exact same content. This means, in turn, that if publishing to one machine in the cluster fails, you want the Content Manager to stop or undo all publish actions to the other machines in the cluster. Select Abort Publishing on all severs in case of errors to accomplish this. When in doubt, ask your Publication Manager if you should switch this option on for the Target Type(s) you selected.