Unpublish a Component to remove the Component from your Web site.
About this task
Note: If you unpublish a Component, a Web page that contains this Component (including the page you are looking at) may also be completely removed from the Web site, even if the Web page still contains other Components. To find out if this is true in your case, consult with your application administrator.
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This Component is submitted to be unpublished.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.
Note: It may take some time before your changes appear on the Web site. If you find that your changes takes too long to be shown on the site, consult your SDL application administrator. It may be that your update is pending review and will not appear until your reviewer has approved it. And, of course, if you use the Schedule unpublish option to specify a later time at which to unpublish the Component, unpublishing will not start until that time.
Note: Unpublishing may fail for a number of reasons, for example:
- because you are not authorized to unpublish
- because too many items are being published or unpublished at the same time
- because the target of the unpublish action is offline
If the unpublish action is not scheduled and succeeds or fails while you are logged in, you are informed of a successful or failed unpublish action at the top of your screen. Unpublishing can fail completely, succeed completely, or fail partially (that is, unpublishing the Component may succeed from some, but not all, destinations).
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 If the Component is successfully unpublished from the current Web site, refresh the Web page to see the updated content.