Checking publish status
You can publish Components and Pages to one or more destinations. Editable webpages report on the success or failure of a publish action at the top of the screen. For more detailed information about the status of your and other users' publish actions, you can examine the Publishing Queue.
About this task
To view the Publishing Queue, do the following:
Procedure
- On an editable webpage, start editing by clicking the pencil button in the top right corner.
- In the Manage tab of the ribbon toolbar, click Publishing Queue.
The Publishing Queue dialog opens.
- Select which publish actions you want to see the status of by selecting one or more of the following controls:
- Target
- Select a specific Target Type to only show publish actions to that Target Type.
- Publication
- Select a specific Publication to only show publish actions for Components and Pages from that specific Publication.
- User
- Select a specific user to only show publish actions performed by that specific user.
- State
- Select a specific publish state to only show publish actions that are currently in that publish state.
- Priority
- Select a specific priority to only show publish actions that were made with that priority.
- Schedule
- Use this control to only show publish actions that were scheduled to be done in a certain time interval (which might currently be in the past or in the future). To select this interval, first select Show tasks scheduled for the time between and then use the two Select date buttons to pick your start and end times from the date picker dialogs that open.
You have now set the filters, if any, for your search for publish actions. - Click Show tasks.
In the lower half of the Publishing Queue dialog, a table of all publish actions matching the criteria you specified appears.
The table displays the following information:
- (icon)
- An icon showing whether the item that was submitted for publishing was a Component or a Page.
- Name
- The name of the Component or Page.
- Target
- The target to which the publish action was directed. If you published to multiple targets, each publish action gets its own entry in the table.
- Publication
- The Publication that contained the Page or Component being published.
- Path
- The full path (within the Publication) leading to this Component or Page.
- Action
- Either Publish or Unpublish, this column shows what the user intended to do with the Component or Page.
- State
- The current state of the publish action.
- Priority
- The priority that was given to this publish action when it was submitted.
- Time
- The scheduled time for the publish action to take place, if not immediately.
- User
- The name of the user who submitted the publish action.
- Go through the list to locate the publish action you were looking for and check its State.
You now know the status of the publish action. For more information about the status you see, consult your application administrator.
- If you want to remove a publish action from the list and if you initiated this publish action, either select the item and click Remove from the Publishing Queue on the toolbar, or right-click the item and select Remove from the Publishing Queue from the context menu that opens.
A confirmation prompt appears at the top of the webpage. Click Yes to confirm the removal of this publish action.