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How do I retrieve publish failure data with the core service?
Via core service you can retrieve PublishTransactionData object, which contains all info about transaction itself:
PublishTransactionData transaction = (PublishTransactionData)Client.Read(...
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Page unpublished and deleted from CME, but page entry still exists in DB. How to clean the entry in DB?
Actually there is a better and far safer solution than the one @Nuno proposes. What you can do is "mock unpublish process". You can capture undeploy transport package on CD side of some other page, ...
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List of processed items in Publish Transaction
You'll need LoadFlags.Expanded, and then you can get the items from the PublishContexts.
I've just done a little POC with the following code and a published Structure Group and both resolvedItems ...
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Target Types and Publication Targets: Why an additional LEVEL of Target Types is required?
The reason behind Target Types is abstraction.
In principle, for most implementations, all you need is 2 target types:
Staging
Live
On a true global deployment model, "Staging" for your vietnamese ...
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Why is my publish transaction empty?
I would add one more possible cause to the list
Also check (any of) it's grand-parent Structure group properties:
if it is set to Publishable=false.
Although it doesn't seem a logical place to look ...
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How do CMS users see Publishing Targets?
These are specified in the Security section of the Business Process Type (for each Purpose).
The Business Process type is then included in the Publishing section of the Publication Properties.
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How to disable the high priority publish option in SDL Tridion
You can't disable it, but you can make it a really bad choice. Depending on your environment, let's say you have 3 publishers, you could configure 2 out of the 3 machines, to only work on medium and ...
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C# TBB updating metadata value
As mentioned for TBBs to be able to make changes to CM items, you need to set allowWriteOperationsInTemplates = true in the Tridion.ContentManager.config on all machines that are rendering for you, so ...
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How can I delete old publication targets in Web 8.5 migrated from 2013sp1?
Clear-TcmPublicationTarget doesn't delete the target - it "decommissions the specified Publication Target". Meaning the system forgets that anything was ever published to that target.
Step two is to ...
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Overriding Publishing Queue
For #1 publishing priority is the way to go. Maybe changing the default priority to "low" will give you enough of an override to push things through quickly. Using publishing priorities in conjunction ...
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Target Types and Publication Target
As Nuno explained in this question: its main reason is abstraction.
What you can set on Target Type and not on Publication Type is security. For second, you have have multiple target types that ...
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Storage Extension: Differentiating Republishing and Unpublishing in Remove Method
In a DAO, you can try to fish out the Deployer Action like so:
LocalThreadTransaction.get().getDeployerTransaction().getDeployerAction()
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Re-publish an item already be published before
You only get this option when publishing an Organizational item (like a Structure Group or a Publication) or an item that resolves into a group of items (like a Page/Component Template), rather than ...
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How to disable the high priority publish option in SDL Tridion
If you disable High - then you essentially making Normal the new High; in which case you should perhaps be thinking about removing low also - or even better re-consider why you want to remove any of ...
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What really happens when we restart the Tridion Publisher service?
The Publisher for sure caches objects, but the lifetime of that cache is normally from the point the the Publish Transaction is picked up from the queue to the point that rendering (of all items in ...
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Can Publish Transaction be updated via core service?
I don't believe this is possible. We had a similar case where we needed to increase the priority of some items in the queue.
I tried similar in 2011 but used Save and not Update. It threw a similar ...
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Overriding Publishing Queue
What you are requiring is mainly to use publish queue in a way its not meant to be used.
For #1 you want to publish items before all others. That is the exact purpose of "high" priority. Problem is ...
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Performing Transactions cleanup
Take a look at the following, Purging finished publish transactions
This allows you to delete success or failed transactions, you can even define how old the transactions need to be in order to be ...
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From Where are Publishing Priorities are fetched?
As I see this is internal functionality of the product, so maybe some details how it works can provide someone from SDL.
The question here is what are you trying to achieve, since I am not sure that ...
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Publishing Keyword
Content Manager always publishes full Taxonomies (a Category and all its Keywords).
If you publish a Keyword, it resolves the Taxonomies (Categories) it is part of (that's normally exactly one) and ...
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How do I retrieve publish failure data with the core service?
To mimic the filtering capabilities of the Publishing queue, take a look at the PublishTransactionsFilterData and its properties.
Use the filter paired with GetSystemWideList or GetSystemWideListXml ...
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Publishing Component Template so it's queryable by oData
You could create a (dummy) Page based on a Page Template which collects and renders the required CT metadata of all CTs (in JSON or XML format).
Publishing the metadata of all CTs can be achieved by ...
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Where do we configure "minimum approval status" for a Web 8.5 solution using Topology Manager?
With Topology Manager based publishing, the Minimal Approval Status is defined on a Target Type (which is part of a Business Process Type).
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Is it Possible to Configure Dedicated Publisher Box by Publication?
If you look for it in the documentation you will find the following topic https://docs.sdl.com/LiveContent/content/en-US/SDL%20Web-v5/GUID-EF85DD70-BC3A-4C54-A01A-AC65AE83EA83
You can install the ...
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Transport service failed to transport
When you go to http://localhost:8082/discovery.svc/Environment/DeployerCapability you should see details of your Deployer Capability, as shown below
<entry
xmlns:metadata="http://docs.oasis-open....
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.ezl20ck file created, CMS works but publishing queue stuck
the .ezl20ck file in the Tridion\bin folder is always there once you started up any of the services and should also be there. It is part of the license system that checks whether the license is ...
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A database error occurred while executing Stored Procedure "EDA_PUBLICATIONS_GETITEMSOFTYPE_83"
This looks like a typical timeout issue and there are a lot of similar question on this topic. The first thing to check is whether you have regular database maintenance performed? If not, do one (and ...
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From Where are Publishing Priorities are fetched?
It gets it from the Core Service (GetEnumValues method) which in turn has the actual values as an enum and string resources for the labels that will be displayed in the user's chosen language.
In ...
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Publisher service not finding Razor Helper methods
Just in case anyone is still having this problem, I solved it by adding the NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account (the account that the Publisher Service runs under by default) as an impersonation user.
This ...
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Debug Custom Resolver in SDL Web 8+
You can use Process Monitor, see here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processmonitor.aspx to search by your DLL name, e.g. MyCustomResolver.dll, and it will tell you which process is ...
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