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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) > Ignore failures while generating publishable content
To publish content, the Content Manager performs two steps:
  1. It generates publishable content (a process known as rendering)
  2. 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, 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 any number of render failures.

Publish/Unpublish Structure Information

Select this option 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 hand side of the Publish or Unpublish dialog have 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

A publish action may imply the deployment of multiple items to multiple physical publish destinations. By selecting Abort Publishing on all servers in case of errors, any failure of a part of the publish action causes the entire publish action to be rolled back.

If other published Components link to a Component you are publishing, publish or republish those Components

Publishing a Component may result in the publishing or republishing of a large number of other Components, if those Components all have a Component Link field that points to the Component. While this is normal and intended behavior (which is why this option is selected by default), if the number of Components linking to your Component is very high, the publishing or republishing can take a lot of time. If you know that the Components that link to a Component you publish are going to be unaffected by the publish action, clear this option to improve publishing performance.

Publish items that are in progress

These options affect the publishing of items that are in workflow, or checked out but not in workflow. Note that items in these states are typically actively being worked on, unfinished and unfit for publishing to a live target environment. The reason to select these options is to make it possible for multiple users working together on a set of content items to review another user's work and modify their own work in response, all before the content items end their workflow process.

If an item is in workflow, publish the in-workflow version of the item

One or more of the items that you are publishing may be in workflow. By default, this in-workflow version will not be published; rather, the last major version of the item will be published. By selecting this option, you override this default behavior, and the in-workflow version will be published, provided that the item has reached the workflow status designated as Approval Status for the Target Type to which you are publishing.

If an item is checked out but not in workflow, publish the checked-out version of the item

One or more of the items that you are publishing may be checked out, but not in workflow. For example, a user may have checked out the item explicitly, but forgotten to check it back in. By default, this checked-out version will not be published; rather, the last major version of the item will be published. By selecting this option, you override this default behavior, and the checked-out version will be published.