Creating a Publication Target

Before you begin

Users with system administration privileges can create Publication Targets.

Before you can create a Publication Target and configure its settings, you need to create Target Types if they do not already exist (see Creating a Target Type).

Also, if you wish to publish using a protocol that is not supported by default (see Protocols, you need to create your own Protocol Schema first (see Creating a custom Protocol Schema.

About this task

Create a Publication Target to specify information about a publish action (such as the location and protocol of a publishing action). When an item is published to a Target Type associated with this Publication Target, the Publication Target information is passed on to the Transport Service. This information is then used by the publisher when the publishing action takes place.

To create a Publication Target:

Procedure

  1. In the Content Manager Explorer, select the Administration tab. If you do not see this tab, you are not sufficiently authorized to perform this task.
    The Administration panel opens on the left.
  2. Navigate to Publishing Management > Publication Targets.
  3. In the Administration tab in the Ribbon, click Publication Targets > New Publication Target.

    A New Publication target dialog opens.

  4. On the General tab, fill in the following fields:
    Name
    A unique name for this Publication Target.
    Description
    A description of the Publication Target.
    Target Language

    The scripting language used on the Web site to which you are publishing. Select one of the following:

    None
    Select this option if your Web site is a plain HTML site that uses no scripting whatsoever.
    JSP
    Select this option if your Web site uses JSP scripting.
    ASP.NET
    Select this option if your Web site is an ASP.NET Web site using .NET as its scripting language.
    ASP/JavaScript [Legacy]
    Select this option if your Web site uses ASP JavaScript. This language is deprecated; that is, it may no longer be supported in the next release of this product.
    ASP/VBScript [Legacy]
    Select this option if your Web site uses ASP VBScript. This language is deprecated; that is, it may no longer be supported in the next release of this product.
    REL (Render Engine Language)

    Select this option to publish content in SDL Tridion's internal language, TCDL. Content Delivery now transforms this TCDL output at request time. Select this option if you wish to do one of the following:

    • use the Content Delivery Web service, as explained in Content Delivery Web service API
    • set up a Web site in another language than ASP.NET or JSP (for example, PHP). This would require you to write your own custom code to transform the TCDL to your target language.
    Default Code Page
    The code page used for the published content. By default, Content Delivery sets this setting to System Default, that is, the code page of the machine from which you publish. Refer to Managing the code page of published content to learn when and why you would change this value, and when and why you would override it.
    Minimum Approval Status
    The minimum Workflow Approval Status required for an item in Workflow for the item to be published. If the Workflow version of an item does not have the required status, the latest checked-in version is published instead.
    Priority
    The priority that publish actions to this Publication Target will have: High, Medium or Low. A Publication Target with High priority will get its content published sooner than one with Medium priority. Consider setting Priority to Low for your staging site, because the staging site does not need to be up to date.
  5. In the Destinations area, add one or more destinations to which the Transport Package will be sent. Each destination has a protocol. After you select a protocol, you can specify the relevant protocol information.

    Click the Add button and fill in the following fields:

    Name
    the name of the destination location
    Protocol
    protocol information for this destination. When you select a protocol from the dropdown, input fields for that specific protocol appear. The selected protocol is based on existing Protocol Schemas. Protocols provides a description of the information required for each built-in protocol.
  6. Select the Publication tab and fill in the following fields:
    • To select Publications that can publish to this Publication Target, select Publications from the list of Available Publications and click the Add button.
    • To add Target Types to this Publication Target, select Available Target Types and click the Add button.
  7. Click the Save and Close button on the toolbar.