Ah, thanks! That makes sense.

Daniel

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On 20 Dec 2012, at 11:12, Gavin Cope <[email protected]> wrote:

> The "<VARIANT> (Draft)" built-in Variant that exists is for publishing out 
> Draft versions of Content Classes for testing.
> 
> To publish unreleased pages, you would need to create a new Variant and tick 
> the box to "publish unreleased pages".
> 
> Something to also keep in mind is the automatic clean-up of deleted pages 
> does not function for "Draft" variants.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gavin
> 
> 
> On 20 December 2012 21:48, Daniel Petroff <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi All
>> 
>> In our new project we need to be able to publish unreleased/draft pages to a 
>> different location from the live pages. I wanted to use the HTML/English 
>> (Draft) publishing combination to assign the new publication target to it 
>> and thought that would be the very easy solution. The rest of the 
>> publication structure is the same as live.
>> Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work as expected. When I make a change to a 
>> page and publish the page (ticking both HTML/English and 
>> HTML/English(Draft)) both publishing reports say page published but neither 
>> location is updated (this is unexpected as it should publish the draft of 
>> the page to the draft variant - or at least that's what I am expecting). 
>> When I release the page and republish again - both are updated (this is 
>> expected).
>> 
>> So, anybody have any insight on this? Am I just misinterpreting the use of 
>> HTML/English (Draft)? Is this not the way to do that?
>> 
>> I tried assigning the deftault publishing targets in project variant 
>> settings, I also tried setting the tick box for "Publish Unreleased Pages".
>> 
>> Is the problem in the state of the page? At the moment I have no workflow so 
>> do I need to create one and Submit the page to workflow so it is in 
>> "Unreleased" state and not draft?
>> What is the point of the (Draft) variant?
>> 
>> Sorry about the huge number of questions but I hope they are related so will 
>> be easy ti answer :)
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Daniel
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