Publishing byline panel

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Shows the page's current publishing state and the buttons to act on it. The main button reads "Publish" the first time, "Republish" once a copy exists, and "Update" when the page is Outdated or Moved. Clicking it only queues a background job. The panel toasts "Page sent to publishing queue. Publishing may take a few minutes.".

Publishing panel showing status Published, published five days ago, approved by Jack Graves, target space Published and page How to forge a sword, with View published and Republish buttons.
Once a copy exists the panel names the target space and page, records who approved it and when, and offers a way to open the live copy or refresh it.

#Where to find it

Any page → "Capable Publishing" in the page byline (tooltip "Publish pages to a space")

The Capable menu open on a Confluence page, listing capabilities including Approval, Calendar, Diagrams, Images, Number headings, Macros and Markdown, with Publishing highlighted and described as publ
Publishing sits in the Capable menu on the page byline, alongside the other capabilities in the app.

#AlsoShows

A "View published" link that opens the published copy (or "View source" when the byline is opened on a target page); who published it and when; the publish comment if one was given; "Approved by" names when the publish came from an approval; a "Content not yet indexed" warning while Confluence search is catching up; and a bin icon that clears the page's publish state.

#Where you do it

Task

Where

Turn on publishing for a space and choose where conten

Space settings → Publishing → Setup tab (or the Settings section inside the Capable Publishing space page)

Decide whether people can publish by hand, and whether

Space settings → Publishing → Setup tab

Choose where published pages land and whether the tree

Space settings → Publishing → Structure tab

#Settings that affect this

Setting

Where

What it does

Enable publishing

Space settings → Publishing → Setup tab

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Target space

Space settings → Publishing → Setup tab

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Allow manual publishing

Space settings → Publishing → Setup tab

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#Worth knowing

Publishing panel on a published page showing status Published, published five days ago, approved by Jack Graves, published from the Drafts space and the page How to forge a sword, with a View source p
On the published copy the panel reads the other way round, naming the space and page it came from and offering a way back to them.

  • There is no scheduled or timed publishing. Nothing anywhere schedules a publish for a particular time. Scheduling is an unbuilt future idea.

  • The only non-manual source is Approval. Turning "Allow manual publishing" off therefore leaves approval-triggered publishing as the sole route into the target space.

  • "Allow manual publishing" reads Off in the settings screen before your first save, but the value actually stored for an untouched space is manual + automatic. Saving the form writes what the screen showed, silently turning manual publishing off.

  • Blog posts can effectively never be published. The code supports the type and a blog post can in principle be published one at a time, but bulk publish and Full Sync exclude them explicitly, and the byline button is hidden on them by the space's content-type setting, which has no control anywhere in the app. Blog-post edits are also never detected, so a published blog post can never go Outdated.

  • Approval-triggered publishing fails on any page whose parent is not already published, when hierarchy is preserved. Only manual publishes automatically publish the missing ancestors. The page just shows Failed with "Parent page is not published and could not be published".

  • Deleting the published copy does not clear the source page's publish link. The source keeps showing as Published.

How it actually behaves.