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Publishing and republishing items from the Content Manager

You can publish, republish, and unpublish Pages, Components, Folders, Structure Groups, Bundles and Publications.

About this task

When you select to publish a container item, Content Manager actually publishes content items within the container:
What you select to publishWhat Content Manager publishes
a Structure Groupall publishable, nested Structure Groups and Pages
a Folderall publishable, nested Folders, Bundles, and Components
a Publicationall items in the Publication that can be published
a Bundleall items in the Bundle

Procedure

  1. Select one or more items in the navigation pane or list view and do one of the following:
    • Click Publish in the Home tab of the Ribbon.
    • Right-click the selected items and select Publishing > Publish from the context menu.
    The Publish dialog appears, showing the Publish settings tab.
  2. Select the Target Types to which you want to publish content to.
    If you have Target Types for your staging site and for your live site, it makes sense to publish to one but not to both—once content is good enough to go live, it no longer needs to be published to staging.
  3. In Publish Settings, select when you want the publishing to start.
    You can improve the performance of your system by scheduling non-essential publishing to occur at a later date (say, at night or during weekends).
    • To place your content online as soon as possible, select Publish content now.
    • To start the publishing process later, select Publish content later and click the calendar button to pick a date and time.
    • To distinguish between the preparation for publishing and the actual placing of content online, select Schedule the publish phases separately. This opens a new set of options.
      • Select Generate publishable content later to start the publishing process at a later date. For example, you may want to postpone this phase because the Content Manager will not be so busy at that time.
      • Select Place content online later to schedule the time at which content is placed online. For example, if you are publishing your company’s quarterly results, you may not want them to go online until a specific date.
  4. If a Publication, Structure Group, Folder, Component Template and/or Page Template is among the items you are publishing, you also see an option called Republish Only (Do Not Publish New Content), which is selected by default. When this option is selected, new items in the Publication, Structure Group or Folder, and new Templates, are not published.
  5. To see which items the Content Manager will publish, click the expand button next to Show items to publish. The dialog expands to show the items you selected, as well as any items that depend on it. Click Hide items to publish to hide this information again.
  6. To configure when this content should be unpublished, click Unpublish settings and do one of the following:
    • To unpublish at a later date, select Do not unpublish.
    • To schedule unpublishing, select Schedule unpublish and click the calendar to pick a date and time.
  7. To configure Advanced Publishing options, select the Advanced tab.
  8. Click Publish to start the publishing process.

Results

The content is published/republished.