Publishing and Activation

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
  
• 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':

'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:

  Node name	Value
  modules
  publishing-core
  config
  receivers
  public
  workspaces
  workspaceToExclude
  workspace	workspace-name
  fromPath	/
  toPath	/
  excluded	true
  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':

  Node name	Value
  modules
  publishing-core
  config
  receivers
  public
  workspaces
  websiteWorkspace
  workspace	website
  fromPath	/public
  toPath	/public
  url	http://localhost:8080/magnoliaPublic
  extranet
  workspaces
  websiteWorkspace
  workspace	website
  fromPath	/extranet
  toPath	/extranet
  url	http://localhost:8080/magnoliaExtranet
  intranet
  workspaces
  websiteWorkspace
  workspace	website
  fromPath	/intranet
  toPath	/intranet
  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:
  
• Green: The page/content has been published AND is unchanged on the Author instance since the last publication.
• Orange: The page/content has been published BUT was changed on the Author instance since the last publication.
• Red: The page/content has NOT been published yet.