# 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.

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## 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.

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## 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.

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## 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 | \-               |

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## Limits that apply here

| **Limit**                       | **Value**                                | **What happens** |
| ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | ---------------- |
| "Publish all pages" / Full Sync | Reads at most 1000 items in a single que | \-               |

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## 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.

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## 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.](https://help.gocapable.com/publishing/page-i-published-shows-failed-and-the-reason-is-publishing-disabled-by-label.html)

[Somebody deleted the published copy, but the source page still says PublishedThe delete-cleanup behaviour does not run. In the Suite it is switched off; the standalone](https://help.gocapable.com/publishing/somebody-deleted-the-published-copy-but-the-source-page-still-says-published.html)

[Export and published sitesThe rest of this family.](https://help.gocapable.com/publishing/export-and-published-sites.html)

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