# Publishing settings Publishing is configured from the shared Capable settings surfaces rather than a tab of its own in every case. This is the complete list. --- ## Every setting | **Setting** | **Level** | **What it does** | | ------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Enable publishing | \- | Allows content from this space to be published to another space. Nothing publishes while this is off. Every publish path checks it and stops. You cannot save it as enabled without choosing a target space first ("Cannot e | | Target space | \- | The one destination space for everything published from this space. It can never be the current space. The picker leaves the current space out and the server refuses it. Changing it disconnects every existing publish lin | | Allow manual publishing | \- | Lets people publish content by hand from the page byline. Turned off, the byline Publish button disappears and the server rejects manual publishes with "Manual publishing is not allowed in this space", leaving publish-on | | Require comment on publish | \- | Makes people type a comment before they can publish from the byline. The comment is stored on the publish state, shown in the byline, and written as the version comment on the published page. The server rejects an empty | | Parent content | \- | A page in the target space that published content is placed under. Left unset, content goes to the target space root/home. The picker only offers pages in the target space and leaves out pages that are themselves publish | | Page structure | \- | "Preserve hierarchy" mirrors the source page tree under the parent, and warns that all parent pages must be published before their children. "Flatten to parent" publishes every page directly under the chosen parent (or t | | Space homepage | \- | "Include homepage" publishes the source space homepage and overwrites the target space's own homepage. "Exclude homepage" skips it everywhere. Bulk runs filter it out, and its children are re-parented onto the configured | | Update existing pages by title | \- | When there is no existing publish link, reuse a page in the target space that has the same title instead of creating a new one. It is updated, moved into the right parent and re-linked to this source, and any previous pu | | Restrict publish permissions | \- | Limits who may manually publish or republish pages in this space to the Allowed publishers list. Space administrators always keep access. Enforced in the byline (button hidden) and again on the server ("You are not allow | | Allowed publishers | \- | The people who may publish manually while the restriction is on. Space administrators are allowed on top of this list. Individual users only. There is no group option. | | Publish all pages ("Full Sync") | \- | Action. "Publish all pages from this space to the target space. Useful for initial load or full sync", behind a confirm dialog titled "Full Sync". Publishes every page and folder in the space in a background job. Blog po | | Publish approved pages | \- | Action. Publishes only pages whose Capable approval status is Approved. Pages with no approval, or a pending or rejected one, are skipped, and folders are never included because they carry no approval. Only shown in an a | | Reset to default | \- | Action. Resets the space's publishing settings and starts a background cleanup that clears publish properties on every source and destination page in the space. Published pages themselves are left in place and are not de | | Clear state (per page) | \- | Removes the link and publish state for that one page. The properties on both the source and the published page, plus the app's stored record. It does NOT delete the published page. | | Database status | \- | Shows a Healthy / Unavailable probe with row counts for each of the three publishing background-processing tables. | | \- | Drops and recreates all publishing background-processing tables. Permanently deletes process history, task logs and any queued or running background publishing tasks. Published pages and publishing settings are untouched | | | Publish on approval | \- | Automatically publishes a page once its approval is approved, recording method "Approval" and the approving users. The space-level override wins over team and per-approval settings and locks the per-approval checkbox on. | | Publishing visibility (whole site) | \- | Hides Publishing across the whole Confluence instance. The byline stops appearing everywhere. | | Publishing visibility (one space) | \- | Auto shows the Publishing byline when it is relevant, Always forces it onto every page in the space, Never hides it in that space. | | Capable\_never\_publish (page label) | \- | Permanently excludes that page from publishing. Any attempt is recorded as Failed with the reason "Publishing disabled by label". | --- ## A few things worth knowing * Settings changes can take a minute to reach other people. * Hiding a capability removes it from the navigation; macros already on pages keep rendering. * Some settings are per space and need only a space administrator. --- ## Related [ReferenceLimits and gaps.](https://help.gocapable.com/publishing/reference.html) [Capable for ConfluenceSuite-level settings.](https://staging.dev.capable-sites.com/wiki/pages/1412890864) --- _The complete list, in one table._