Publish a single page
- Robert Alexander Marshall
Overview
A user can publish a single page from the Publish option on the page itself.
The single page Publish byline option is only displayed if the current space has been linked to a target space in the publishing dashboard, single page publishing is enabled for the space and the user has appropriate permissions for the page
Single page publishing
An existing page in the draft space that has been published displays a PUBLISHED lozenge and a link to the published space content.
edit an existing page and Save the changes
A Publish byline option and an OUT OF SYNC publishing lozenge is added to the draft content
An OUT OF SYNC lozenge is also be added to the linked published space page
To publish changes to an existing single page
choose the Publish byline option
A dialog box requests confirmation of the publish and sync for this content. It also displays the target published space name.
choose Yes to publish and sync the page
The publish and sync of the single page is confirmed on-screen.
The source and target space pages will both display the PUBLISHED status lozenge.
Source (draft) space page
Target (published) space page
Comala Publishing displays a warning in the editor when attempting to edit a published page in the target space.
You can edit and save changes on this published target space page.
When you next publish the draft version of that page from the source space the content in the target space is overwritten.
If you are using a Confluence theming app, you need to ensure the byline that lists the page author, date, etc is visible as this is where the Publish page button is displayed.
Enabling single page publishing
To use single page publishing in a space
the space must first be linked by a space administrator to a target space in the space tools space publishing dashboard
Single Page Publish must be enabled for the space by using the tick slider Show "Publish" button on each page in this space publishing dashboard
User permissions
To publish a single page using the Publish button on the content you need to have the following Confluence permissions in both the source and target spaces to publish a page or blog post.
View All
Add and Delete pages
Add and Delete news
Add and Delete attachments
You also need to check that
a source space and published have been set up
configuration settings
in the published space, the page you are publishing does not have any page restrictions limiting your access