Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Chapter 7. Workflow and Publishing

In this chapter, we will cover some different and interesting tasks related to workflow and publishing. You will learn the following recipes:

• Creating a custom action using workflow
• Achieving time-based automated publishing
• Unpublishing of items
• Using publishing events to send a publish completion e-mail
• Publishing file-based items using web deploy
• Clearing an HTML cache based on published items for a multisite environment
• Customizing the publishItem pipeline to avoid duplicate names on a live site

Introduction

This chapter assumes that you have a basic understanding of the Sitecore workflow and publishing interfaces. Here, you will learn some interesting recipes of workflow and publishing. We will see how both are interrelated ...