Getting Started with Comala Publishing for Confluence Cloud
Overview
Comala Publishing for Confluence Cloud is a separate app that enables the publishing of pages between spaces in the same Confluence site - pages are published from a source (draft) space to a target (published) space.
Comala Publishing is used to publish your draft pages from one space to another space in the same Confluence site
The publishing action copies each page’s content from the source (draft) space to the target (public) space maintaining the page hierarchy where possible.
To publish pages a user requires view and edit permissions on both the draft space and the public space content.
Enable Comala Publishing for a space
Publishing must be enabled and configured for a space via the space tools App links Comala Publishing dashboard in the source (draft) space.
Publishing setup wizard
In the Comala Publishing dashboard
choose Configure Publishing to open the space publishing set-up configuration wizard to enable Comala Publishing in the space
The publishing set-up tool is only available if the space is being setup for the first time or any publishsing configuration has been cleared using the Clear Publishing Configuration option.
Publishing dashboard
When a target space is selected and saved in the publishing dashboard and publishing is enabled the app can publish a page from the current space to a target (public) space.
By default, on adding the target space the following options are displayed.
Publishing Setting | Default - on adding the target space | Notes |
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Enable publishing | (Enabled) |
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Copy content Properties | Displayed as (enabled by default) |
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Enable single page publishing | Displayed as (enabled by default) |
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Space publishing | Displayed with Publish space button |
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Publishing Pages
Once a space is configured for publishing you can publish pages using standalone publishing or together with an applied workflow from one of the Comala Document Management family of apps.
These publishing actions are
Single-page publishing
A user can publish each page manually using the publishing byline added to the page.
Single-page publishing can be disabled for a space by the space administrator. This can be useful if you want to limit publishing to whole space publishing by the space administrator or publishing on an applied Comala workflow event.
Space publishing
A space administrator can publish all the content from a source space to a target space in a single publishing action using the Publish space option in the space settings publishing dashboard.
A progress bar displays the space publishing action progress.
Successful publishing is confirmed in the dashboard. The confirmation includes the date, time and the user who actioned space publishing.
If the space publish action was unable to publish all the source pages, the space publishing dashboard will display a listing of the unsuccessful pages.
If the space has no pages (except the home page), space publishing will not occur. This will be confirmed in an on-screen notification.
Publish content on an applied Comala workflow event
You can also choose to publish pages together with an applied Comala Document Management workflow.
Publishing on the added workflow transition to a final state
A Comala workflow can invoke the publishing action to a specified target (public) space when the workflow reaches the workflow final state on the page in the source (draft) space.
Publish pages using a workflow JSON trigger
Comala Document Management for cloud provides the option to edit a workflow event trigger publish a page.
[{"event":"_transition/change-state","conditions":[{"state":"In Approval"}],"actions":[{"action":"publishing/sync-page"}]}]
Publishing confirmation
The successful copy of a page to the target space is confirmed in an on-screen message.
A message is displayed on a page for successful single-page publish action or a successful publish action using a Comala workflow.
When using space publishing the successful copy of the page in a space is confirmed in the space settings Publishing dashboard.
On each page published page in the source page, a successful publishing confirmation message is displayed on viewing the page.
What is copied from the draft pages to the target space?
Each published page will include
the content title
the content body
attachments
content properties*
content labels
When publishing the page
links to local pages in the source space will be replaced with the links for the content in the target space
When publishing a previously published updated page
Comala Publishing deletes the previously published page and copies the updated page as a new page in the target space
What is not copied?
Comala Publishing Cloud does not support publishing
the home page of a space and cannot be used to publish blog posts.
custom content properties for Comala Read Confirmations app and Comala Document Management Family of apps
the source space Confluence version
The following is also not published from the source space
inline comments
page-level permissions
comments
archived pages
The publishing status is copied but is not visible on the content for users with view-only permission.
Content properties are copied by default when publishing a page. This can be disabled for a space in the space settings publishing dashboard.
Page hierarchy
The content will maintain the page hierarchy where possible (but in some instances the order of the content may not necessarily be maintained). If the copying of the hierarchy is not possible then the copy is made to the root of the destination space.
the hierarchy will be maintained as long as the parent page exists in the destination space
if the hierarchy cannot be maintained the page will be copied into the root of the destination space and a warning message will be shown to the user
If you had previously published a page that had resulted in the page being published into the root of the destination space then any subsequent publishing of the source space page will simply copy the page but not any changes in the page tree parent.
Publishing user permissions
To configure publishing a user needs to have space administrator permission in both the source space and the target space.
When publishing space pages
a space administrator requires view and edit permission for all the pages in the source space and target space
a user publishing an individual page needs view and edit permission the page in the source space and target space
A user also needs to have the following permissions in the target space to publish a draft page:
View All
Add and Delete Pages
Add and Delete Attachments
Also ensure that in the target space, the page you are publishing does not have any page restrictions limiting your access.
Related Links
Publishing
Publishing space administration
Comala Document Management Family of apps