Nothing publishes when approvals are approved, and there is no "Publish approved pages" button
What you are seeing
Nothing publishes when approvals are approved, and there is no "Publish approved pages" button.
#Why it happens
You are running the standalone Publishing app, which does not include the Approval capability at all, so nothing can ever queue an approval-triggered publish there.
#What to do
Publish-on-approval requires an app that ships both capabilities. The Capable Suite or the Capable Approval app. Otherwise use manual publishing and bulk runs.
#Settings involved
Setting | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
Enable publishing | Space settings → Publishing → Setup tab | - |
Allow manual publishing | Space settings → Publishing → Setup tab | - |
Page structure | Space settings → Publishing → Structure tab | - |
#Limits that apply here
Limit | Value | What happens |
|---|---|---|
"Publish all pages" / Full Sync | Reads at most 1000 items in a single que | - |
#A few things that catch people out
Bulk selection and Full Sync are capped at 1000 items per run, and a bulk job chain is abandoned past 10,000 items, 50 continuations or about 25 minutes. With nothing in the app telling the administrator the run was truncated and no documented resume procedure. Large spaces need repeated runs.
The "children" configuration value does nothing. It exists in the stored settings, is annotated as being there only for future features, and no code reads it.
#Related
Page I published shows Failed and the reason is "Publishing disabled by label"
The page carries the capable_never_publish label, which permanently excludes it.
Somebody deleted the published copy, but the source page still says Published
The delete-cleanup behaviour does not run. In the Suite it is switched off; the standalone
Export and published sites
The rest of this family.
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