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Publishing

You publish Content Manager items to make content available on a website or other web application. You need to republish items when you update content, or unpublish content when you want to take it offline.

Publishable content

You can publish the following Content Manager items:

  • Publications
  • Structure Groups
  • Folders
  • Bundles
  • Pages
  • Components
  • Multimedia Components
  • Categories and Keywords
  • Component Templates
  • Page Templates

When you select to publish a container item, Content Manager actually publishes content items within the container:

Container itemWhat Content Manager publishes
a Structure Groupall publishable, nested Structure Groups and Pages
a Folderall publishable, nested Folders, Bundles, and Components
a Publicationall items in the Publication that can be published
a Bundleall items in the Bundle

The ability to publish Components and Templates depends on them being located in Folders that have been defined as publishable. Similarly, the ability to publish Pages depends on them being located in publishable Structure Groups.

In summary, Content Manager creates one or more of the following items as published output:

  • Pages
  • Components (when using templateless, data-only publishing)
  • Dynamic Component Presentations (when using template-based publishing and only with Dynamic Content Delivery)

Design of published content

The look and feel of publishing content depends how publishing has been set up.

Template-based publishing
If your organization uses a template-based publishing model, scripting in the Component Template and Page Template determines the design and content that the Content Manager publishes.
  • The Page Template determines where, how, and which Component Presentations are rendered and also often includes navigation and branding features.
  • The Component Template combines with the Component or Multimedia Component to create the Component Presentation, and the Component Template determines how and which content from the Component is rendered.
Data publishing
If your organization uses a templateless, data-only publishing model, the look and feel of the published webpage is limited to the organization of Components into Regions on the Page, which is defined by the Page Template and Region Schema.
In a templateless, data-only publishing model, no Component Template is required and there is no concept of a Component Presentation. The look and feel of content is removed from the template and done instead by the application that uses the published content, such as a website, mobile app or a kiosk display screen.