Publishing
Digest
FAQs
- Can I schedule content to Publish at a later date?
- Publishing can be triggered manually, through a workflow step, or on an automated schedule. Publish and expiration dates can be added to all content. If an expiration date is added, the user also has the option of selecting an archive folder that the page should be moved to upon expiration. This can be done at the content item level and at the collection (folder) level.
Concept
Publishing Content
The Publish action is available for:
- Pages
- Files
- Folders
- Sites
- Targets
- Destinations
- Publish Sets
To Publish one of these of asset types:
- Navigate to the asset
- Click the Publish tab
- For Pages only: Select the checkboxes for the Page's configurations that you'd like to publish.
- Select the checkboxes corresponding to the Destinations you'd like to publish to.
- Optionally: select the "Publish Report" checkbox to have a summary of the publish sent to you as a system Message
- Click Submit to publish your content to the selected destinations.
In most cases, Cascade will prevent duplicate publish jobs from being added to the publish queue. If a user attempts to publish an asset that is already in the queue, he/she will be presented with the following warning:
Note that publishing an asset to different Destinations in separate submissions to the publish queue will not result in a duplicate publish warning. For example, if a user publishes Page A to Destination A and then publishes page A to Destination B; a duplicate publish warning will not be displayed.
Un-Publishing Content
To un-publish an asset:
- Navigate to the asset
- Click the Publish tab
- For Pages only: select the checkboxes for the configurations to un-publish
- Check the boxes corresponding with the destinations to unpublish the content from.
- Click the Un-publish radio button:
Parallel Publishing
Each Site in Cascade has its own publish queue that can process up to 2 jobs at a time. When viewing a Site's publish queue, users can see which other Sites have active publish jobs.
The publish queue for a single site, publishing two items at a time.
Publish queue with more than one site publishing at a time
Publishing Page Configurations to Destinations
When publishing or deleting/un-publishing Pages, users can use the available checkboxes to choose which Page Configurations to publish or unpublish.
Because page configurations can be routed to specific Destinations at the Content Type level, the Publish and Delete screens also indicate if a Page Configuration is set to:
- Publish to "All Destinations"
- Publish to specific Destinations
- Not publish at all (i.e. "Do not publish")
Configurations that have been disabled for publishing at the Configuration Set level will not appear on this screen at all.
FAQs
- Can Cascade Server automatically Publish and Retire content on a Schedule?
All content can be posted and expired at predetermined times. When creating or editing a page, users may simply edit the metadata fields indicating the start date, expiration date, and which folder (if any) the content should be moved to upon expiration.
This is a great way to automate the management of time sensitive information. Coming events, for example, can be automatically removed after the event has passed.
- How does Cascade Server tie into a Web Server?
- Cascade Server has a robust publishing engine designed to bake the files out in the development environment, and synchronize those environments with one or more production servers. The assembled content is transformed into native XML files, standard HTML, and/or any scripting language desired. The strength of this system is that upon publishing of content, the information is completely decoupled from the CMS, allowing it to operate independently in any standard environment. Single points of failure such as database connections and third party servers are mitigated as the content has been “compiled.”
- How does Cascade Server support Secure Publishing?
- Cascade Server supports secure publishing through the use of industry standard secure transport methods such as SFTP, and VPN. The organization may also implement the secure transfer utility of their choice.
- Can Cascade Server be used with Multiple Web Servers?
- Cascade Server supports secure publishing through the use of industry standard secure transport methods such as SFTP, and VPN. The organization may also implement the secure transfer utility of their choice.
Technical
Canceling Publish Jobs
To cancel a publish job:
- Navigate to the publish queue.
- Click the red 'x' icon next to the job you wish to cancel. (Note that an ability is required to be able to cancel publish jobs)
- On the following confirmation screen click Submit to confirm job cancelation.
Note that canceling a publish job in the "Current Jobs" table requires that the job be aborted before it can be removed from the system. Therefore, users will notice that cancecanceled jobs in this table will be marked with the word "(canceled)" to indicate that they are being aborted.
Canceled Publish Job in Publish Queue
Canceling a publish job that is in the "Queued Jobs" table will result in the job being removed immediately.
Stalled Publish Jobs
Occasionally, a publish job in the "Current Jobs" table will be displayed with the word "(stalled)" next to it. In most cases, jobs in the stalled state are those which were being processed by the system when the system was shutdown or restarted. Upon starting Cascade back up, these jobs will no longer be processed. After 1-2 minutes, a stalled job will be automatically removed from the publish queue.
Stalled Job in Publish Queue