Publishing Draft pages

[Daniel Petroff]

Hi All

In our new project we need to be able to publish unreleased/draft pages to a different location from the live pages. I wanted to use the HTML/English (Draft) publishing combination to assign the new publication target to it and thought that would be the very easy solution. The rest of the publication structure is the same as live.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work as expected. When I make a change to a page and publish the page (ticking both HTML/English and HTML/English(Draft)) both publishing reports say page published but neither location is updated (this is unexpected as it should publish the draft of the page to the draft variant - or at least that's what I am expecting). When I release the page and republish again - both are updated (this is expected).

So, anybody have any insight on this? Am I just misinterpreting the use of HTML/English (Draft)? Is this not the way to do that?

I tried assigning the deftault publishing targets in project variant settings, I also tried setting the tick box for "Publish Unreleased Pages".

Is the problem in the state of the page? At the moment I have no workflow so do I need to create one and Submit the page to workflow so it is in "Unreleased" state and not draft?

What is the point of the (Draft) variant?

Sorry about the huge number of questions but I hope they are related so will be easy ti answer :)

Thanks!

Daniel

[Gavin Cope]

The "<VARIANT> (Draft)" built-in Variant that exists is for publishing out Draft versions of Content Classes for testing.

To publish unreleased pages, you would need to create a new Variant and tick the box to "publish unreleased pages".

Something to also keep in mind is the automatic clean-up of deleted pages does not function for "Draft" variants.

Cheers,

Gavin

Daniel

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[Daniel Petroff]

Ah, thanks! That makes sense.

Daniel

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[Marky T]

Sorry just hijacking the thread :). Is it correct that the 'publish unreleased pages' checkbox only publishes pages that are in Workflow and NOT actual draft content that hasn't been submitted at all yet?

 

We want our admins to be able to publish unreleased content to our QA system but they are also the final workflow step so if they click 'Submit to Workflow' it just releases the pages.

[Gavin Cope]

That's correct, a page needs to have entered workflow to publish using that option. Prior to that, it is considered exactly what the name suggests, an author only draft that can't be published.

Cheers,

Gavin

On 31 January 2013 21:26, Marky T <mark....@arm.com> wrote:

Sorry just hijacking the thread :). Is it correct that the 'publish unreleased pages' checkbox only publishes pages that are in Workflow and NOT actual draft content that hasn't been submitted at all yet?

 

We want our admins to be able to publish unreleased content to our QA system but they are also the final workflow step so if they click 'Submit to Workflow' it just releases the pages.

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