delete list question

[Dmitry Terner]

Hi,

So if you check the  "clean up liveserver" checkbox a delete list gets generated every time a page is disconnected or deleted then at publication that page is actually wiped from the server.

We encountered a scenario where publishing was down due to a delivery server connectivity issue. During this time a number of pages were disconnected in CMS but the publication never occurred. Now even with a full site publish I can't get those items to be deleted. The issue is that there are quite a few and we don't even have the full list.

Has anyone encountered this and have any pointers? Or worst case scenario, is there a way to query which pages became unlinked recently? so that we can wipe them manually from delivery server.

Thanks,

- Dmtiry

[Tim D]

Dmtiry,

One way you can find these may be the publication reports.

For a slicker way if you publish some metadata like publishing date (or a revision index set in content class templates) to a DS attribute you could have a search or target DynaMent to identify old contents. With a full site republish you could identify contents that are likely to be orphaned.

On a side note having the metadata that the WSG Best Practice Project sample project uses in content attributes can facilitate a lot of interesting use cases. These include:
page id, page guid, publication date, creation date, parent page guid.

Best,
Tim

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