Publishing in XM Cloud
When content authors finish creating and designing a final version of website content in XM Cloud, they publish it to make it live and available. When you publish, you push content to Experience Edge, where it can be consumed by the front-end application created by your developers.
In XM Cloud, you can publish content items, pages, components, layouts, or page designs, or an entire website at the same time. You can publish content using Pages, Explorer, Components, Deploy, or the Content Editor. For many publishing tasks, there is more than one tool you can use, as shown in the following table.
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Type of item to publish |
Content Editor |
Explorer |
Pages (Editor) |
Pages (Templates) |
Components |
Deploy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Entire website |
✓ |
✓ | ||||
|
Content items |
✓ |
✓ |
as related items of a page* | |||
|
Pages |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ | |||
|
Partial and page designs |
✓ |
✓ | ||||
|
Layouts and templates |
✓ |
as related items of a page* | ||||
|
SXA components |
✓ |
as related items of a page* | ||||
|
Sitecore components |
✓ | |||||
|
Styles |
✓ | |||||
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Multiple websites |
✓ |
✓ |
Choose the tool that best suits your workflow: for example, if you're working in Explorer, you can publish from there, without having to switch to a different tool.
* When you publish a page from Pages, some related items included in that page are also automatically published: content items, layouts and templates built in the Content Editor, and SXA components.
However, partial and pages designs are not automatically published when publishing a page where they are used. They must be published from the Pages Templates mode, or from the Content Editor.
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When you publish from Pages, you can:
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Publish a page and its subpages, as well as related items used in the page and saved in the Content Editor such as SXA components, layouts and templates, and content items.
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Work with versions of a page and set publishing dates.
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From the Pages Templates mode, publish partial and page designs.
When you publish content using Explorer, you can:
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Work with versions of a content item or a page.
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Schedule availability for an item or a page and its versions (publishing restrictions).
When you publish an item using the Content Editor, you can:
You can publish all your websites at the same time in the XM Cloud Deploy app.
Sitecore components and Styles must be published from the Components app.