Promoting Launches promoting-launches
You need to promote launch pages to move the content back into the source (production) before publishing. When a launch page is promoted, the corresponding page of the source pages is replaced with the content of the promoted page. The following options are available when promoting a launch page:
- Whether to promote only the current page or the entire launch.
- Whether to promote the child pages of the current page.
- Whether to promote the full launch or only pages that have changed.
- Whether to delete the launch after being promoted.
Launch could not be promoted (together with conflict errors in the log).Promoting Launch Pages promoting-launch-pages
- Promoting a Nested Launch when there is more than one launch in the structure.
- Launches - the Order of Events for further details about automatic promotion and publication.
You can promote launches from either the Sites console or the Launches console:
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Open:
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The Sites console when navigating source pages:
- Open the references rail and select the required source page using selection mode (or select and open the references rail, the order is not important). All references are shown.
- Select Launches (for example, Launches (1)) to show a list of the specific launches.
- Select the specific launch to show the actions available.
- Select Promote launch to open the wizard.
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The Sites console when navigating launch pages:
- Select the required launch page using selection mode.
- The Promote action is available in the toolbar.
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The Launches console:
- Select your launch (select the thumbnail).
- Select Promote.
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In the first step you can specify:
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Target
- Delete launch after promotion
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Scope
- Promote full launch
- Promote modified pages
- Promote approved pages - dependent on the launch approval workflow
- Promote current page
- Promote current page and sub pages
For example, when selecting to only promote modified pages:
note note NOTE This covers a single launch, if you have nested launches see Promoting a Nested Launch.
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Select Next to proceed.
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You can review the pages to be promoted; these will depend on the range of pages you have chosen:
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Select Promote.
Promoting Launch Pages when Editing promoting-launch-pages-when-editing
When you are editing a launch page, the Promote Launch action is also available from Page Information. This opens the wizard to collect the information needed.
Promoting a Nested Launch promoting-a-nested-launch
After creating a nested launch you can promote it back to any of the sources, including the root source (production).
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As with Creating a Nested Launch, navigate to and select the required launch in either the Launches console or the References rail.
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Select Promote launch to open the wizard.
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Enter the required details:
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Target
- Promotion target - You can promote to any of the sources.
- Delete launch after promotion - After promotion, the selected launch, and any launches nested within it, are deleted.
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Scope - Here you can select whether to promote the entire launch, or only pages that have actually been edited. If the latter, you can then select to include/exclude sub-pages. The default configuration is to only promote page changes for the current page:
- Promote full launch
- Promote modified pages
- Promote approved pages - dependent on the launch approval workflow
- Promote current page
- Promote current page and sub pages
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Select Next.
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Review the promotion details before selecting Promote:
note note NOTE The pages listed will depend on the Scope defined and possibly the pages that have actually been edited. -
Your changes are promoted and reflected in the Launches console:
Processing Promoted Pages Using AEM Workflow processing-promoted-pages-using-aem-workflow
Use workflow models to perform bulk processing of promoted Launches pages:
- Create a workflow package.
- When authors promote Launch pages, they store them in the workflow package.
- Start a workflow model using the package as the payload.
To start a workflow automatically when pages are promoted, configure a workflow launcher for the package node.
For example, you can automatically generate page activation requests when authors promote Launches pages. Configure a workflow launcher to start the Request Activation workflow when the package node is modified.
