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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.

HCLSoftware U learning materials

For an introduction and a demo on how to use projects, go to Project. To try it out yourself, refer to Project Lab and corresponding Project Lab Resources.