Projects

Projects are used to change a set of items on your site and ensure that they are published together at the same time. A new project has a default workflow that allows content to be reviewed and approved before it is published.

• Project review state
  If you select at least one approver for a project, the project must be submitted for review before it can be published.
• Project States
  When you use a project, the project progresses through a series of states.
• Ways to publish a project
  Publishing a project refreshes the live website with your changes.
• Project Publishing
  An outline of the process of publishing a project.
• Drafts and projects
  You can create, update, and approve pages in a draft state, without affecting the published site. When you work with pages, you can edit pages as drafts, manage drafts with approval workflow, and then syndicate to publish changes.
• Scope of edits
  When you edit pages in a project, you use workflow for approving changes before you publish them until they are approved. If you edit pages without selecting a project, your changes are published immediately.
• Project Validation
  An outline of the validation process.
• Projects and syndication
  Projects are included in syndication, the method that is used by HCL Web Content Manager to replicate data from a web content library on a syndicator server to a web content library on a subscriber server. Although projects are syndicated with other items in a library that is being syndicated, you cannot use the subscriber copy of the project to update or publish your project. Work with projects on the syndicator server only.
• Projects and custom workflow actions
  Each workflow stage contains default actions, but you can also create custom workflow actions by creating a custom workflow plug-in.
• Best practices for projects
  Use these tips and guidelines to develop and publish projects more effectively.