Question

I’m trying to publish a page during Workflow. There are two environment that we are publishing to during workflow process: one to test and one to live. During the first automatic activity we are publishing to test and during that process the Components on the Pages don’t need to be approved. We got that to work.

However when we approve the Page and the Page is being published to live, we need to make sure that we only publish approved Components (i.e. major versions).

In my code I’m using the Page.Publish method, but with that I can’t specify that it should only publish approved items.

The publish method accepts an argument called activateWorkflow. When set to True it publishes both approved and unapproved items; but when set to False it gets added to the queue and we get a success message, but nothing gets published.

Anyone have any ideas how I can fix this, using the publishing method and without manually checking?

Thanks.

Answer 1

It is not clear where you are performing the activities, are you doing this from within your workflow activities in Visio?

Publishing will always only publish items that are either in the approved status for that target and items that have finished workflow (major versions).

All that said, I believethe reason you are getting empty PublishTransacctions is because you are calling the Publish() method on new items before you finish the page workflow activity (which means your new item is still in workflow, so the false value means there is nothing to publish which is not in workflow). Try calling FinishActivity() before the Publish() method is called.

Perhaps you could post your code from the final step so we can see exactly what you are doing.