All of my publishing targets are unchecked, need them all checked for publishing

Question

So I have been trying to find the option out there to make the default, where all publishing targets are selected. I have the 3 from the below screen shot and doesnt seem to publish everything everywhere unless checked on the Content tab of the item. Thanks for the help.

UPDATE:

Answer 1

If you have multiple publishing targets then you will see all of them in the publishing window as checkbox items. If you want to set any of these publishing target databases as your default target database, then you can configure it via the DefaultPublishingTargets setting in web.config file.

<setting name="DefaultPublishingTargets" value="Internet_uk" />

If you want to mark all of them pre-selected then use the pipe sign. Pipe-separated list of default publishing targets. Groups in this list will be pre-selected in the Publish dialog.

<setting name="DefaultPublishingTargets" value="Internet|Internet_uk|Internet_west" />

For reference, I am adding an image of my project showconfig.aspx:

Create a patch file to add Publishing Target DB: (for reference I am pasting my patch file code here, you can update accordingly)

<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/" xmlns:set="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/set/">
    <sitecore>
        <databases>
            <database id="web2" singleInstance="true" type="Sitecore.Data.DefaultDatabase, Sitecore.Kernel">
                <param desc="name">$(id)</param>
                <icon>Images/database_web.png</icon>
                <securityEnabled>false</securityEnabled>
                <dataProviders hint="list:AddDataProvider">
                    <dataProvider ref="dataProviders/main" param1="$(id)">
                        <disableGroup>publishing</disableGroup>
                        <prefetch hint="raw:AddPrefetch">
                            <sc.include file="/App_Config/Prefetch/Common.config" />
                            <sc.include file="/App_Config/Prefetch/Webdb.config" />
                        </prefetch>
                    </dataProvider>
                </dataProviders>
                <PropertyStore ref="PropertyStoreProvider/store[@name='$(id)']" />
                <remoteEvents.EventQueue>
                    <obj ref="eventing/eventQueueProvider/eventQueue[@name='$(id)']" />
                </remoteEvents.EventQueue>
                <archives hint="raw:AddArchive">
                    <archive name="archive" />
                    <archive name="recyclebin" />
                </archives>
                <cacheSizes hint="setting">
                    <data>100MB</data>
                    <items>50MB</items>
                    <paths>2500KB</paths>
                    <itempaths>50MB</itempaths>
                    <standardValues>2500KB</standardValues>
                </cacheSizes>
            </database>
        </databases>
        <eventing defaultProvider="sitecore">
            <eventQueueProvider defaultEventQueue="core">
                <eventQueue name="web2" type="Sitecore.Data.Eventing.$(database)EventQueue, Sitecore.Kernel">
                    <param ref="dataApis/dataApi[@name='$(database)']" param1="$(name)" />
                    <param hint="" ref="PropertyStoreProvider/store[@name='$(name)']" />
                </eventQueue>
            </eventQueueProvider>
        </eventing>
        <PropertyStoreProvider defaultStore="core">
            <store name="web2" prefix="web2" getValueWithoutPrefix="true" singleInstance="true" type="Sitecore.Data.Properties.$(database)PropertyStore, Sitecore.Kernel">
                <param ref="dataApis/dataApi[@name='$(database)']" param1="$(name)" />
                <param resolve="true" type="Sitecore.Abstractions.BaseEventManager, Sitecore.Kernel" />
                <param resolve="true" type="Sitecore.Abstractions.BaseCacheManager, Sitecore.Kernel" />
            </store>
        </PropertyStoreProvider>
    </sitecore>
</configuration>