Viewing and filtering the Publishing Queue

Open the Publishing Queue in the Home tab of the Ribbon toolbar to view publish transactions. You can filter on various criteria. To view and filter the Publishing Queue, you must have Publish rights for at least one Publication.

Procedure

  1. Access the Content Manager Explorer website.
  2. On the Ribbon Home tab, select Publishing Queue.

    The Publishing Queue opens. By default, the Publishing Queue shows the list of publish transactions for the current user, to be published today.

    For each publish transaction, the queue shows the following properties:
    PropertyDescription
    NameThe icon and name of the item submitted for publishing
    TargetThe Target Type to which the item has an associated publish action
    PublicationThe Publication from which the item publish was initiated
    PathThe organizational item path to the item that was submitted for publishing
    ActionThe publish action, either Publish or Unpublish
    StateThe publish transaction state
    PriorityThe priority of the publish transaction
    TimeThe date and time at which the item was submitted for publishing
    UserThe User who performed the publish action
  3. To filter the items you see in the queue, select the icon on the right of one or more of the column headers and clear or select checkboxes to hide or show items, respectively.
  4. To change which items are displayed under Publishing Tasks, select one or more of the following filters in the Filter Publishing Tasks area:
    OptionDescription
    TargetSelect a Target Type from the dropdown to see only publish actions submitted to that Target Type
    PublicationSelect a Publication from the dropdown to see only publish actions involving items from that Publication
    UserSelect a User from the dropdown to see only publish actions submitted by that User
    StateSelect a publish transaction state from the dropdown to see only publish actions in that state
    PrioritySelect a publish priority from the dropdown to see only publish actions submitted with that priority
    Show All TasksSelect this option to see publish actions regardless of when they were scheduled to be started
    Show Tasks Scheduled for the Time Between ... andSelect a start time and end time to see only publish actions scheduled to be performed between that start time and that end time
  5. To apply the filter(s) you set to the Publishing Queue, select Show Tasks.

Results

You see a list of publish transactions, which refreshes automatically as publish transactions start and finish. (Changes to the publish state appear with a five-second delay.) The Show Tasks button is disabled until you change the search parameters. You can also filter the displayed list using the arrow button that appears next to the columns in the list.