Penn State University Libraries - Publishing Pages

This section describes how to publish pages in CQ. To publish a page, you activate its contents. Conversely, to remove a page from publication, you deactivate its contents.

When you are working on pages that you are modifying, you can lock the pages so other users cannot make changes or accidentally activate the content. In addition, you preview a page before publishing by selecting Preview Mode in the Sidekick.

You can activate pages in the Websites console window after you have opened a page and modified its contents.

To activate page content:

1. In the Website console, select the page(s) that you want to activate.
2. Select Activate, either from the top menu, or the popup menu that appears after right clicking on a selected page item.
3. CQ activates the selected content. To see that the page(s) have been published, refresh the page. The published page(s) appears in the Website console with information about who activated the content as well as date and time of activation.

To schedule your activation for a later time:

1. In the Websites console window, go to the Activate menu, and select Activate later.
2. In the dialog that opens you provide the date and time for activation and click OK. This creates a version of the page that is activated at the specified time.

Activating later starts a workflow to activate this version of the page at the specified time. Conversely, deactivating later starts a workflow to deactivate this version of the page at a specific time.

To remove a page from the publish environment, you deactivate the content.

To deactivate a page:

1. In the Websites console, select the page(s) that you want to deactivate.
2. Select Deactivate, either from the top menu, or the popup menu that appears after right clicking on a selected page item. You are asked to confirm the deletion.
3. Refresh the Website console and the content is no longer published.

Note: Deactivating a page will also automatically deactivate any subpages beneath it.

To schedule your deactivation for a later time:

1. In the Websites console, go to the Deactivate menu, and select Deactivate later.
2. In the dialog that opens you provide the date and time for deactivation and click OK.

Deactivating later starts a workflow to deactivate this version of the page at a specific time.

To lock a page that you are working on so no one can modify the contents or activate it:

1. In the Websites console window, select the page that you want to lock.
2. Double-click the page to open it for editing.
3. In the Page tab of the Sidekick, select Lock Page.  A message shows that your page is locked to other users: Page successfully locked. CQ displays the page as locked and indicates which user has locked the page.
   

You can only unlock locked pages if you locked the page or if you have administrator privileges.

To unlock a page:

1. In the Websites console, select the page you want to unlock.
2. Double-click the page to open it for editing.
3. In the Page tab of the Sidekick, select Unlock Page.