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title: "Publishing"
slug: "publishing"
abstract: "Information about publishing flows and status."
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# Publishing

To deliver content to your various channels, you publish the schema and entity definitions from the **Delivery platform** page in Sitecore Content Hub. This makes entities visible in the delivery platform to be further transformed, loaded, and used in [Experience Edge](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch/en/users/content-hub/experience-edge-for-content-hub.html "Experience Edge for Content Hub").

> [!note]
> The **Delivery platform** page is available from the **Manage** page only if [publishing](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch/en/users/content-hub/configure-the-publishing-settings.html "Configure the publishing settings") is enabled in the settings.

> [!important]
> We strongly recommend that you use the **Delivery platform** page to manage the publication of entity definitions and members. It shows all the entity definitions (including those that are system-owned), and their members, which you can publish or unpublish, except for [excluded definitions](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch/en/users/content-hub/excluded-entity-definitions.html "Excluded entity definitions"). You can also do this from the **Schema** page, but this page does not show the system-owned definitions.

## Publishing flows

The following diagrams illustrate the stages in the [schema and entity publishing flows](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch/en/users/content-hub/entities.html "Entities"). Flow 1 illustrates the auto-publishing schema flow. Flow 2 shows the auto-publish entities flow. Publishing is handled using [logs](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch/en/users/content-hub/raw-audit-log.html "Raw audit log") and [queues](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch/en/users/content-hub/current-activity.html "Current activity").

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### Flow 1

![auto-publish schema flow: auto-publish-schema.png](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/ch/en/users/content-hub/images/auto-publish_schema_flow__auto-publish-schemapng.png)

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:::tab{title="Flow2"}
### Flow 2

![auto-publish entities flow: auto-publish-entities.png](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/ch/en/users/content-hub/images/auto-publish_entities_flow__auto-publish-entitiespng.png)

> [!note]
> In this diagram, the filter represents a set of [publishing conditions](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch/en/users/content-hub/create-or-update-publishing-conditions.html "Create or update publishing conditions") that an entity must fulfill to be published.

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## Publishing status

The following table lists possible publishing statuses.

| Status | Icon | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Enabled for publishing | :mdiCloudCog: | When you enable an entity definition for publishing, it makes the related entities and schemas visible and usable in the delivery platform. |
| Not published | :mdiSync: | The entity definition is not yet published to the delivery platform. |
| Unsaved changes | ![Updating icon](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/ch/en/users/content-hub/images/cloud-refresh-variant.png) | The entity definition has unsaved draft changes in Sitecore Content Hub. |
| Unpublished changes | ![Changes not published icon](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/ch/en/users/content-hub/images/changes_not_published.png) | The entity definition has changes that are not published to content delivery. |
| Updating publishing status | ![Updating icon](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/ch/en/users/content-hub/images/cloud-refresh-variant.png) | Awaiting confirmation of that entity definition is published to delivery platform or removed from it. |
| Published | ![Successful icon](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/ch/en/users/content-hub/images/cloud-check-variant.png) | The entity definition is successfully published to the delivery platform. |
| Publish failed | ![Errors icon](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/ch/en/users/content-hub/images/cloud-alert.png) | Publishing to delivery platform failed. |
| Unpublish failed | ![Errors icon](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/ch/en/users/content-hub/images/cloud-alert.png) | Unpublishing from delivery platform failed. |