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General Publication settings

You can configure Publication settings in the General tab of a Publication.

Name

The Name of a Publication. This name must be unique within the Content Manager.

Publication Key

A string of your choosing that uniquely identifies this Publication. This string is published as part of Publication metadata.

Type
The type of a Publication:
  • Unspecified
  • Content
  • Web
  • E-mail
  • Mobile
  • SiteType
Publication path
Use this setting if any of the following apply:
  • You are using the deprecated publishing framework from before SDL Web 8. In this case, the path to which the Content Manager publishes content on the destination machine(s).
  • You are using the new publishing framework introduced in SDL Web 8, and you are publishing to a file system. In this case, the path you fill in here must be identical to the path you specify in your Topology Manager installation scripts or in the Site Wizard.
Publication URL

The Web address to which content is published for this Publication. This setting is no longer relevant if you use the new publishing framework introduced in SDL Web 8.

Images path

The path to which the Content Manager publishes images on the destination machine(s). This setting is no longer relevant if you use the new publishing framework introduced in SDL Web 8.

Images URL

The Web address to which images are published for this Publication. This setting is no longer relevant if you use the new publishing framework introduced in SDL Web 8.

Business Process Type
When you create a new Publication, this is a read-only setting set to (Default), which means the following:
  • If this Publication has no parent, no Business Process Type is associated with this Publication: the setting becomes (None) after you save.
  • If this Publication has a parent and the parent has no Business Process Type associated with it, no Business Process Type is associated with this Publication: the setting becomes (None) after you save.
  • If this Publication has a parent and the parent has a Business Process Type associated with it, that Business Process Type is initially associated with this Publication: the setting becomes the name of that Business Process Type after you save. After that, if the parent Publication changes its Business Process Type, this Publication does not automatically change along with it; and conversely, a change to this Publication's associated Business Process Type does not affect its parent's.

Alternatively, when you modify an existing Publication, you can change this setting to (None) or to any of the available Business Process Types.

Metadata Schema
You can add metadata to a Publication to store additional information about the Publication.
To add metadata to a Publication, you first need to create a Metadata Schema, which defines a series of fields that can be used to capture metadata values. You can then select the Metadata Schema you created as the value for this setting.