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Creating a Publication Target

Create a Publication Target to specify information about a publish action such as the location and protocol of a publishing action.

Before you begin

Users with system administration privileges can create Publication Targets.

Before you can create a Publication Target and configure its settings you need to have created Target Types (see Creating a Target Type).

Procedure

  1. Open Content Manager Explorer.
  2. Select Administration in the navigation pane.
  3. Expand the Publishing Management > Publication Targets node.
  4. Open the Ribbon toolbar Administration tab and select Publication Targets > New Publication Target.
    The New Publication Target window opens.
  5. In the General tab, fill in the following fields:
    Name
    A unique name for this Publication Target.
    Description
    A description of the Publication Target.
    Target Language
    The scripting language used on the Web site to which you are publishing. Select one of the following:
    None
    Select this option if your Web site is a plain HTML site that uses no scripting whatsoever.
    JSP
    Select this option if your Web site uses JSP scripting.
    ASP.NET
    Select this option if your Web site is an ASP.NET Web site using .NET as its scripting language.
    ASP/JavaScript [Legacy]
    Do not select this option: this target language is no longer supported.
    ASP/VBScript [Legacy]
    Do not select this option: this target language is no longer supported.
    REL (Render Engine Language)

    Select this option to publish content in SDL Web's internal language, TCDL. Content Delivery now transforms this TCDL output at request time. Select this option if you wish to do one of the following:

    • use the Content Delivery Web service, as explained in Content Service API
    • set up a Web site in another language than ASP.NET or JSP (for example, PHP). This would require you to write your own custom code to transform the TCDL to your target language.
    Default Code Page
    The code page used for the published content, by default System Default (the code page of the machine from which you publish). For information about changing the code page, see Managing the code page of published content.
    Minimum Approval Status
    The minimum Workflow Approval Status required for an item in Workflow for the item to be published. If the Workflow version of an item does not have the required status, the latest checked-in version is published instead.
    Priority
    The priority (high, normal or low) that publish actions to this Publication Target have: a Publication Target with high priority will get its content published sooner than one with normal priority. Consider setting Priority to low for your staging site, because the staging site does not need to be up to date.
  6. In the Destinations area, add one or more destinations to which the Transport Package will be sent. Each destination has a protocol. After you select a protocol, you can specify the relevant protocol information.
    Click the Add button and fill in the following fields:
    Name
    The name of the destination location
    Protocol
    Protocol information for this destination. When you select a protocol from the drop-down menu, input fields for that specific protocol appear. The selected protocol is based on existing Protocol Schemas. For more information, see Protocols.
  7. In the Publication tab, select the Publications and Target Types that can publish to this Publication Target:
    1. Select Publications from the list of Available Publications and click the Add button.
    2. Select Target Types from the list of Available Target Types and click the Add button.
  8. Click Save and Close.

Results

When an item is published to a Target Type associated with this Publication Target, the Publication Target information is passed on to the Transport Service. This information is then used by the publisher when the publishing action takes place.