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Publishing a page to your website

Before you publish your draft, you can preview it in your browser. You can also make the draft available to others for approval or feedback before you publish the draft (see Send web page drafts and files for review). If you decide not to publish your draft, you can cancel it, leaving the published version of the page as is.

If the draft you’re publishing was already on your website, Adobe® Contribute® replaces the existing page with your updated version. You can also make updates to an existing page, and then publish it as a new page without altering the original page.

If the draft you’re publishing is a new page that was not on your website or blog, Contribute adds it to your website or blog. For new pages, Contribute asks you to name the file for the page before you publish.

You can revert to a previous version of the page after publishing if the administrator has enabled the Page Rollback feature.

When you publish a web page, Contribute rewrites all dependent links in the current page. It also rewrites links to the current page in all its parents. Contribute rewrites all the "file:///" links as relative links. The options specified in the Administer Website dialog box decide the type of relative link that is chosen. For more information on link settings, see Specify the type of path for links in a website.

Close all linked files open in Contribute or the in-browser editor before you publish a web page. Close a web page if it has a dependent file that is shared with the file being published.

When a web page is published, its dependent files and linked pages with the same workflow as the web page are also published. Enable this option when publishing the page.

If the linked page has a different workflow than the page being published, the location for the page that is published later is finalized on the site but the file is not published. All dependent files of the published file are published along with the published page. Shared dependent files are also published. However, dependent files exclusive to the linked page are published with the linked page.

For example, consider the following case:

  • Page1.htm is based on the template template1.dwt with the workflow Author > Publish.

  • Page2.htm is based on the template tempate2.dwt with the workflow Author > Review > Publish

  • Page1.htm is associated with the dependent files (assets) wav1.mp3, and video1.mpeg.

  • Page2.htm is associated with the wav1.mp3 and video2.mpeg files as its dependent files (assets).

    When Page1.htm is published, the dependent files wav1.mpeg and video1.mpeg are also published. The location of Page2.htm is finalized on the site but it is not published until the workflow is complete. The dependent file video2.mpeg is published only when Page2.htm gets published.

    Note: You can publish a file only if you have the permissions to publish it.

    You can publish any of the following types of pages to your website:

  • Updates to an existing page

  • New page, not previously published

  • Existing page as a new page