Ah, thanks! That makes sense. Daniel
Sent from my iPad 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 >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RedDot CMS Users" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/reddot-cms-users/-/iZtc8L-NI-QJ. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RedDot CMS Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en.
