Understanding publication workflow
This topic gives an overview of the different workflows of publication outputs
- Publish workflow
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The publish workflow starts with creating the new publication output for which you want to trigger a publish and results in a publication output with one of the following statuses:
- Draft
- Failed
- Release candidate
- Cancelling a publish
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When an user triggers a publish, that same user can cancel its publish request. This will force the publish to stop (as soon as possible).
- Out-of-date publications
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When an user updates one of the key fields on the publication, all finished publications will be marked as out-of-date and all publish request will finish with an out-of-date publication.
- Releasing a publication
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Before releasing the publication, the publish must result in a publication output with status "Release candidate".
Releasing the publication itself consists out 2 steps:- Freezing the baseline
- After freezing the baseline, the publication output can be released