These fields determine how the system should process a CM definition object when you use the Publish command. By default, these fields are found in the following locations:
■ Content Management, when clicking the Publish command on the Document System toolbar for most CM definition objects.
■ Tools > Site Designer, when clicking the Publish command on the Document System toolbar for most CM definition objects.
Tips
■ When you choose to Save and Publish a content record or iPart, then no publishing options are displayed. Your changes to the content record or iPart are automatically published and immediately visible on all websites that use it.
■ You can multi-select content records (by holding Shift or Ctrl while selecting them) to publish a group of content records all in one operation.
■ If you publish a content folder, the publishing process automatically includes all descendants (content records and sub folders) of that content folder too, and the publishing option you select is applied to each descendant.
■ When you make changes to the definition of a content folder, the system flags only that content folder as now being in a Working state. However, changes made to a content folder usually affect the behavior of all of its descendant content records and content folders, so you generally must re-publish all of its descendants too. This is where the Publish All Items and Publish Working Items, Regenerate Published Items options become useful:
□ Use Publish All Items to effectively reset the expiration countdown timer for all descendant content records that are controlled by the Content is considered expired n days after last published field.
□ Use Publish Working Items, Regenerate Published Items if you do not want to affect the current expiration countdown timer for all descendant content records.
Publish children as well?
(appears only for some definition object types)
If the selected definition object or folder has children, such as a navigation item in the Manage sitemaps tree or a subfolder in the Manage websites tree, then all descendants of the definition object or folder will be published too.
Note: This option is not displayed for content folders because the publishing process for a content folder always applies to all of the content folder's descendants.
Publish Working Items Only
(appears only for some definition object types)
Publishes only the selected definition objects that currently have a status of Working. Selected objects that are in any other state are ignored.
Publish All Items
(appears only for some definition object types)
Publishes all of the selected definition objects regardless of their status. Objects that are currently in a Published state have their Updated on date reset to the current date.
Publish Working Items, Regenerate Published Items
(appears only for some definition object types)
Publishes all of the selected definition objects regardless of their status. The Updated on date remains unchanged for objects that are currently in a Published state.
Close this window after submitting for publish?
Prevents the publishing results from being displayed, which can reduce the number of clicks you must make when publishing. This option is saved as a preference until you change it again.