Information Technology Services

by Curt Price

The Cascade CMS features a robust publishing engine designed to render and publish content to one or more environments. Once content is published, it's completely decoupled from the CMS, allowing it to operate as a standalone entity on the University web server.

When a user tries to send content to the live web server, it's not that unusual for them to think that "SUBMIT" will publish their content to the web server.

It does not.

"SUBMIT" only saves your work within the Cascade CMS and DOES NOT publish to the live web server. For your page/document/image to actually go live on the siue.edu website, you need to "PUBLISH".

Publishing an Asset/Page

To publish an asset:

1. Click the Publish button (  ) in the toolbar when previewing a publishable asset (page/document/image) or right-click an asset and select Publish from the context menu.
2. From this menu, you can either click Publish to publish the asset now with the default settings, or configure one or more of the following options:
   • Optionally Publish Later - schedule the asset to publish at a future date and time.
     • Before this date, the asset can be indexed but isn't publishable and won't be included in other publish jobs such as folder or site publishes.
     • You can cancel a future scheduled publish with the Unschedule link when previewing the asset.
   • View Publish Settings
     • View & Publish Related Content (if applicable) - publish the asset's linked and manual Relationships .
     • Include Publish Set (if applicable) - publish the Publish Set associated with the asset's Content Type .
     • Generate a publish report - send a summary of the items published (including any errors) to your user Notifications.
     • For page assets, select the Outputs that you'd like to publish.
       • Because page Outputs can be routed to specific Destinations at the Content Type level, the publish screen will indicate if a page Output is set to publish to "All Destinations", publish to specific Destinations, or disabled for publishing altogether.
       • Outputs that are not publishable will be listed, but cannot be selected.
       • If an Output is set to publish to "All Destinations", it will be eligible to publish to all Destinations but will only publish to those selected.
       • Likewise, if an Output is set to publish to a specific Destination, it will only publish to that Destination if it's selected.
       • Outputs that have been disabled for publishing at the Configuration level will not appear on this screen at all.
   • Select the Destinations you'd like to publish to. (but you shouldn't have to change this in normal circumstances, the defaults are setup already)

Unpublishing

To unpublish an asset:

1. Click More > Unpublish when previewing a publishable asset or right-click an asset and select Unpublish from the context menu.
2. From this menu, you can either click Unpublish to unpublish the asset now with the default settings, or configure one or more of the following options:
   • Optionally Unpublish Later - schedule the asset to unpublish at a future date and time.
     
     • Before this date, the asset can be indexed and included in other unpublish jobs such as folder or site unpublishes.
     • You can cancel a future scheduled unpublish with the Unschedule link when previewing the asset.
   • Generate a publish report - send a summary of the items unpublished (including any errors) to your user Notifications.
   • Select one or more Outputs to unpublish (for pages).  (but you shouldn't have to change this in normal circumstances, the defaults are setup already)
   • Select one or more Destinations to unpublish from.  (but you shouldn't have to change this in normal circumstances, the defaults are setup already)

Scheduled Publishing

Individual assets can be scheduled to publish once at a future date and time. See Scheduling Publishing for Individual Assets for more information.

Additionally, the following types of assets can be set to publish on a recurring schedule:

• Sites
• Destinations
• Publish Sets

Scheduled publishing can be configured on an asset when creating or editing it. Once enabled, the following options are available:

Destinations

• Publish to all enabled Destinations - publish to all Destinations that are enabled at the time the job is added to the Publish Queue.
• Publish to selected Destinations - publish to selected Destinations.

Frequency

• Every day - publish the asset daily at the time specified.
• Each selected day(s) - publish the asset each given day of the week at the time specified.
• Every n hours - publish the asset every specified number of hours starting at the time specified.
  • This setting does not respect Daylight Saving Time (DST) changes.
• Cron Expression - publish the asset on a schedule specified by a provided cron expression.

Notifications

• Send report to - send a publish report to the Notifications of selected Users and/or Groups.
• Only send report when errors are present - only generate a publish report if there are errors during the publish job.