[opencms-dev] Direct Publish: Siblings?

[David Trattnig]

Thank you Carl for this detailed answer - now i got it!

Cheers,
David

On 8/30/06, Carl Alex Friis Nielsen <cfn at kb.dk> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org@KB On Behalf Of "David Trattnig"
>
> > So whats about the siblings in the first case - will they be published
> > or not cuz there is no checkbox to confirm this? I think this
> > inconsistency should be fixed...
>
> There are two issues here - the existence of the sibling with its properties
> and its content.
>
> If the sibling doesn't exist in the online project it will
> still not exist after the direct publish described.
>
> If the sibling does exist in the online project it will still exist
> in the online project, but with unchanged properties, but its content
> has been updated. Eg. if the sibling uses a different locale it will
> now show the updated content no mater which way you published any of
> its siblings - there is only one content shared between the siblings
> and that is what will be shown after publishing.
>
> You can only omit publishing a siblings existence and its properties
> - not its content.
>
> IIRC the semantics of checking the "siblings boks" when publishing a set
> of resources is that siblings IN the set are published - not that siblings
> OF the content of the set are published. If this is correct there is no
> reason to ask about it when publishing a single resource because if the
> single resource is a sibling you have already decided to publish it and having
> a sibling check box would be asking you twice - so if this is the case there
> is no inconsistency.
>
> cheers,
>
> Carl
>
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