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What does the "Publish related items" checkbox do in Sitecore?
Technical details
Starting from Sitecore 7.2, there is an option to publish an item with "Publish related items" checked. If you do that, the <getItemReferences> pipeline (defined in Sitecore....
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Publishing items in bulk
Publishing that many items will always be quite slow, there is a lot of reading, writing and indexing that is required however. I don't think there is going to be any code which will solve this.
I've ...
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When should I define a new publish target?
Common uses I've seen is to make the following two things easier:
Preview of the site before it's published where users don't have sitecore access. This preview can be used internally in the ...
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What is the difference between republish, smart publish and incremental publishes?
Here's an overview of each of the publishing methods:
Republish
This publish will simply fully publish out each item again, regardless of whether it has been published before or not. Therefore this ...
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OnPublishEndAsync not triggering on CD Server
The most likely issue here is the scalability settings for the instance names. Scalability settings allow your different instances to listen to the shared event queue and know which ones to respond to....
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When should I define a new publish target?
You can find a great explanation with examples in this blog.
A few reasons to define additional publishing targets mentioned there:
Traffic, geographic distribution, redundancy and other scalability ...
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Publish at very specific time
You could use SiteCron to do this job.
SiteCron is a scheduling module based on Quartz.NET Job Scheduler. SiteCron can be used to create simple or complex schedules to execute jobs. This ...
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"Unpublishing" a Language from a site
Because you want to keep the content in the Master database, but you do not want to publish it to the web database, this may be a good opportunity to use Workflow.
If you're using Workflow on these ...
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Setting up multiple publishing targets
Scenario
Let's say you need create a second publishing target called staging.
Steps
Publishing Target
You need to create an item for the new database in the content tree at the path /sitecore/...
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How to find out what's pending to be published
I would go with Sitecore PowerShell Extensions. It supports your version as well.
My idea is to run query and process all items you want to check.
In the past I used something like this to compare ...
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Publish at very specific time
I spent some time looking into this recently and we decided to use the following module (built by the Hedgehog guys) and it works really well for us so far for scheduling publishing:
https://...
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How to get hostname on publish end event
The problem with Sitecore.Context.Site:
Sitecore performs publishing on the publisher site, and as you noted, the publish:end is an event and is called without a request, so there isn't even a URL to ...
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When should I define a new publish target?
To make an educated decision, you need to know what publishing does and what it does not.
Publishing is the process of copying content from one database to another. By default there is one source ...
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What is the impact of enabling Sitecore.Publishing.Recovery.config
With a default install of Sitecore the Publishing runs as a Job. If IIS or the server is restarted, or the Application Pool for your site is Recycled the publishing task will be terminated, even if ...
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How do publish end remote events work
The communication between the Content Delivery and Content Management box is handled through the Event Queue.
Your Content Management instance triggers an event (i.e.: "publish:end:remote")
This ...
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How to stop schedule publishing in weekends?
This can be achieved by updating your Schedule field on your task.
127 represents the days of the week, this task is meant to run. This only makes sense if you convert it to binary.
127d = %01111111
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If I unpublish an item will Sitecore update the search index?
I did some research and for simple scenario unpublished content is deleted from the index. In my case, it was Lucene, but that shouldn't be really matter because all relevant code is stored in ...
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Image not published in data source item (Sitecore 8.1)
When publishing with subitems and related items, there are two important aspects to keep in mind:
related items of subitems will be published;
related items of related items will not be published.
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"Unpublishing" a Language from a site
I think this is possible with SPE. Something like this should work:
Remove-ItemLanguage -Path master:\content\home -Language "fr-FR" -Recurse
Perform this on a CM server and publish the site to move ...
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Sitecore 8: Items Duplicated in Web Index After Publish
This looks like a bug with the OnPublishEndAsync strategy.
It becomes apparent when authors start creating new versions of content each time they lock and edit an item.
It has been fixed in 8.1 but ...
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Publishing target in Sitecore 9
You should add the missing nodes in your config. Sitecore has added these things in the database config in Sitecore9. So in your case -for a "web2" database-, add:
<eventing defaultProvider="...
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Publishing error BlobProviderException: No supported provider for is configured
That issue will occur if there is a reference from a media item "blob" field to a missing blob in the "Blobs" table.
It might be that the UpgradeApp.exe tool wasn't able to clean ...
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Sitecore 8: Item Being Skipped During Publish
My particular issue was certainly unique, but may help someone in the future. We had mistakenly added three database entries on the server when only two exist:
web
web-preview
web-delivery
The web ...
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Sitecore 8: Items Duplicated in Web Index After Publish
The issue was that in my efforts to trim the index of waste, i.e. remove fields that I'm not accessing, I removed a certain special field (though it is not marked in any way as being important, though ...
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How to get a 'last publish date' for an item
You need to create some custom code to have such a functionality, out of the box Sitecore doesn't have such a functionality.
You can create a template with two fields : Publishing Date and Publishing ...
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"Unpublishing" a Language from a site
You could loop through items in your tree and restrict publishing using Sitecore PowerShell.
$item = Get-Item master:/sitecore/content/home
$item.Editing.BeginEdit()
$item["__Never publish"] = "1"
$...
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How do publish end remote events work
When publish:end:remote event is raised, there is an entry created in the core database EventQueue table.
All the servers (including CD servers) check that table and executes all the handlers.
In ...
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Stop user from saving and publishing when a field is Empty
1) Publishing
To stop publishing when field is empty, there is no OOTB functionality. One option how you can achieve it with minimal effort is to put item (template) under workflow and use below ...
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Language version set to Unpublishable is not being removed from Web Database
There was a bug in earlier Sitecore 8.2, fixed in 8.2 Update 5 (rev. 170728)
A deleted language version of an item in the master database exists in the web database after publishing.
Smart ...
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Auto publishing for specific items
As Sitecore Climber mentioned, you could use workflows if you do not need to have a future publish date. Otherwise the Automated Publsiher module might help you, but if you really want something ...
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