Single-page publishing

Overview

in a draft space, you can manually publish each page using the publishing byline and popup

In the space settings of the current space (the draft space) you must have

You will also need view and edit permissions for both the draft space and the target space.

The Publish button will not be displayed if single-page publishing is disabled for the space.

If you are publishing a document using a Comala workflow added to the page you may consider disabling single-page publishing.

Standalone single-page publishing is enabled for each space by default when the space is enabled for publishing and a target space has been set. 

Publishing a page

For an unpublished page (in the space Human Resources Draft) choose the publishing byline New to open the publishing popup.

Choose the Publish button to publish the page.

The publishing popup displays the progress of the publishing action

Successful completion of publishing the page to the target space is confirmed in the popup.

Publishing is also confirmed in a on-screen message.

The single page publishing on-screen confirmation message dialog box is only displayed once. It is cleared and is not displayed again

  • after the page is refreshed

  • on a subsequent page view if the message is cleared by a user

  • on returning to the page after using the View published version link

Refresh the page to view the updated publishing byline status lozenge in the page subtitle and open the publishing popup.

The publishing popup displays

  • the View Published Version link button to the published page

  • the Publish button option to publish the page again

Synced page

When a page is published to the target space the byline on the page in the source space will change to Synced. This byline is also added to the published page in the target space.

The publishing popup displays

  • the current time elapsed since the sync occurred

  • Publish button option

  • View Published Version button to display the page in the target space

The page in the target space (Human Resources public space) will also display the Synced byline.

The publishing popup in the target space includes a link button to the source space version of the page.

Out of sync page

If there are any changes to the page content that has been published will change the publishing byline to Out of sync.

  • changes on either the target or draft space page will cause the page to be out of sync

  • both the target and the draft space page publishing byline will be Out of sync

Deleting a page

Deleting the page in the target space adds the Out of sync byline to the draft space page.

Removing the page in the draft space will add a Removed byline to the target space page.

Warning message

If page is published with no parent in the target space, the page is published to the root of the space.

Successful publishing is confirmed with a warning message.

You may need to

  • manually change the hierarchy in the target space, or

  • delete this published page and republish after the parent page is published

Error messages

Target space user permission error

If the current user does not have view and edit permission in the target space, the page will not be published and an error message is displayed.

Unsuccessful publishing error

If the publishing action is unsuccessful you will see the following error message.

Simply check page is not currently being edited by another user or published, for example in a space publishing action, and then choose Publish again.

Copying content properties

By default, the copying of content properties when publishing a page is enabled for the space. A space administrator can choose to disable the copying of content properties for source space pages in the source space settings publishing dashboard.