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Goals

• Learn about receivers
• Understand how to configure content to publish
• Understand how content is activated from the Author Instance to the Public Instance

Receivers - Push Content to a Public Instance

• Used to push content to a Public Instance
• Defines where exactly contents should be pushed to.
• Manages that the content will be pushed to all defined public instances or to non of them on failure.
• For each Public Instance one receiver is configured on the Author Instance.
  For example: If there are three public instances, there must also be three receivers configured, each pointing to a public instance

Content Activation

• Publishing is a system process that copies content from an Author Instance to a Public Instance
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• Publishing content is triggered by the end user (author).

Receiver Configuration

• Each public Instance is configured as a receiver of the Author Instance.
• The receiver configuration is located in 'config:/modules/publishing-core/config/receivers':

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'workspaces' Configuration

• By default all existing workspaces are included into the publication process.

• One can configure explicit workspaces that should be excluded in the receiver configuration:

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  heading 0 enableHeadingAttributes false enableSorting false class m5-configuration-tree enableHighlighting false
  Node name Value Mgnl f modules Mgnl f publishing-core Mgnl f config Mgnl f receivers Mgnl n public Mgnl n workspaces Mgnl n workspaceToExclude Mgnl p workspace workspace-name Mgnl p fromPath / Mgnl p toPath / Mgnl p excluded true Mgnl p url http://localhost:8080/magnoliaPublic

• Partial content of a workspace to be published (rest is ignored) can be defined via the properties 'fromPath' and 'toPath':

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  heading 0 enableHeadingAttributes false enableSorting false class m5-configuration-tree enableHighlighting false
  Node name Value Mgnl f modules Mgnl f publishing-core Mgnl f config Mgnl f receivers Mgnl n public Mgnl n workspaces Mgnl n websiteWorkspace Mgnl p workspace website Mgnl p fromPath /public Mgnl p toPath /public Mgnl p url http://localhost:8080/magnoliaPublic Mgnl n extranet Mgnl n workspaces Mgnl n websiteWorkspace Mgnl p workspace website Mgnl p fromPath /extranet Mgnl p toPath /extranet Mgnl p url http://localhost:8080/magnoliaExtranet Mgnl n intranet Mgnl n workspaces Mgnl n websiteWorkspace Mgnl p workspace website Mgnl p fromPath /intranet Mgnl p toPath /intranet Mgnl p url http://localhost:8080/magnoliaIntranet

Receiver Configuration

Defining a Receiver

1. To access receivers, in AdminCentral, open the Configuration App.
2. Navigate to /modules/publishing-core/config/receivers.
3. Open an existing receiver.
4. Define the target URL in the url property.
5. Activate the receiver in the enabled property.

For a second receiver, copy an existing one and:

1. Rename the new subscriber to a meaningful name.
2. Change the url property to the second Magnolia Instance.
3. Activate the receiver in the enabled property.

Content's Publication Status

• The 'status' column in the 'Pages App' or any other Content Apps is the publication status indicator:
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• Image AddedGreen: The page/content has been published AND is unchanged on the Author instance since the last publication.
• Image AddedOrange: The page/content has been published BUT was changed on the Author instance since the last publication.
• Image AddedRed: The page/content has NOT been published yet.