Solution Overview for Business Users / Version 2506.0
Table Of ContentsA publication synchronizes the state of the Live Server with the state of the Content Management Server. All actions such as setting up new versions, deleting, moving or renaming files, withdrawing content from the live site require a publication to make the changes appear on the Live Server.
CoreMedia makes a distinction between the publication of structural and of content changes:
Content-related changes are changes in content item versions such as a newly inserted image, modified links, text.
Structure-related changes are moving, renaming, withdrawing or deleting of resources. So it becomes possible to publish structural changes separately from latest and approved content item versions.
For every publication a number of changes is aggregated in a change set. This change set is normally composed in the course of a publication workflow. The administrator and other users with appropriately configured editors can also execute a direct publication, which provides a simpler, although less flexible means of creating a change set.
Change Set in Direct Publications
When performing a direct publication, the change set is primarily based on the set of currently selected resources or on the single currently viewed resource. As the set of resources does not give enough information for all possible types of changes, three rules apply:
You cannot publish movements and content changes separately. Whenever applicable, both kinds of changes are included in the change set.
When a content item is marked for deletion or for withdrawal, new versions of that content item are not published.
If the specific version to be published is not explicitly selected, the last approved resource version is included in the change set.
There are also some automated extension rules for the change set, which modify the set of to-be-published resources itself. These rules can be configured in detail. Ask your Administrator about the current settings.
When new or modified content is published and links to an as yet unpublished resource, the unpublished resource is included in the change set. Depending on the configuration, also recursively linked content items can be included in the change set. Target content items that are linked via a weak link property are not included in the change set.
When the deletion of a folder is published, all directly and indirectly contained resources are included in the change set.
When the withdrawal of a folder is published, all directly and indirectly contained published resources are included in the change set.
When the creation, movement, or renaming of a resource in an unpublished parent folder is published, that folder is included in the change set.
