Unpublishing a Component

Unpublish a Component to remove the Component from your Web site.

About this task

Procedure

  1. On an editable Web page, start editing by clicking the pencil button in the top right corner.
  2. Select a Component on the page and in the Manage tab of the ribbon toolbar, select Unpublish.

    An Unpublish dialog opens.

  3. On the left, under Unpublish from, select the Web sites from which you want to unpublish this Component.
  4. On the right, in the Unpublish settings tab, select to unpublish immediately by selecting Unpublish now or, if you want to have the Component unpublished at a later time, select Schedule unpublish and select a date and time in the future, using the calendar control that appears.
  5. To configure the unpublish process in more detail, select the Advanced tab and select one or more of the following options:
    Override publish/unpublish priorities
    Select this option and set the dropdown that appears to low, normal or high, if you want to change the default priority for this unpublish action.
    Also publish/unpublish in Child Publications
    Select this option if you want the unpublishing of the Component to occur in the Child Publications (that is, Web sites derived from this Web site) as well.
  6. If you have set your options as desired, click Unpublish.

    The dialog closes.

Results

This Component is submitted to be unpublished. This means that an attempt is made to remove the Component from the Web site (or to schedule it to be removed in the future), and possibly one or more Web pages that contain the Component.

What to do next

To check the status of your unpublish action, check the Publishing Queue in the Manage tab of the ribbon toolbar. If the Component is successfully unpublished from the current Web site, refresh the Web page to see the updated content.