Publisher
The Publisher service performs the publishing of content in SDL Web. In the Content Manager either a user or an automated event triggers the publishing of an item. The Publisher offers this item to the Transport Service.
The Publisher performs the following steps when preparing an item for the Transport Service:
- Resolving
- Resolving is the process of assembling the list of items to publish. Any item that is requested to be published may trigger the publishing of other items. For example, republishing a Component triggers a republish of all the Pages that contain the Component as part of a static Component Presentation.
- Rendering
- Rendering is the process of combining content items from Content Manager to produce publishable content. For example, combining a Component and a Component Template, two content items, results in a Component Presentation, a publishable item. You can customize rendering by creating a .NET class that manipulates the publishable content. Typically, you would modify the rendering process itself by modifying your Template, but a modification that should be made to all publishable content is easier done through a custom renderer.