Under Community Review

Valid request, I have promoted this idea to Under community review so others can vote for this as well. 

Feature will be reviewed for the new User Interface development in a future release. 

Sites9.1 - Republish/Redo multiple from publishing queue

There was an extension available in the versions prior to Sites 9.1 to republish directly from the publishing queue.

Sites 9.1 has the option called as 'Redo' which is good as we do not need any extension, but it doesn't work if you select multiple pages/items from the publishing queue which was possible in the extension.

Unfortunately, the extension doesn't work as is in 9.1 version and it needs to be deployed using the addon service but needs some additional changes aligned with 9.1 version.

Is this solved by someone? Can we add it as a feature inside the product itself?

Much frustrating to see things which were possible in old version are not possible (or complicated?) in the new version...

Sarang Deshmukh

  • The Tridion Sites 10.0 UX update, scheduled for release towards the end of November 2023, will add a Publishing queue to Experience Space. In addition to being more performant and configurable than the Classic UI publishing queue, this new queue will support Redo on multiple publish transactions.

  • in reply to Sarang Deshmukh

    See the documentation to get started with the add-on approach to loading extensions into the system: https://docs.sdl.com/783502/705437/sdl-tridion-sites-9-1/add-ons. 

    I believe the old way to install GUI extensions is still supported, though perhaps deprecated in Sites 9.1. But maybe someone could confirm or you could see if that extension still works. Otherwise, consider following up on Tridion Stack Exchange.

  • Multi-item actions make sense and are indeed supported for many actions in the Classic UI and Experience Space. Specifically for publishing redo, I was the product owner at the time who had us add redo to the Classic UI publishing queue.

    The idea was to indeed enable this functionality in the Classic UI, at least until it could be added to Experience Space. The use case is if/when publishing fails, IT should be able to troubleshoot or restart publishing-related services and non-admins could retry the items that failed. In the case of a recovery, I can see how selecting each item would be frustrating, though I hope this isn't a daily editorial task.

    In the Classic UI in Sites 9.1, a sucessful redo depends on a few things such as if the selected transaction exists, authorization, etc. The button will become disabled for the selected publishing request if it turns out redo isn't applicable for that request and its transactions.

    So given the use case and additional logic and notifications needed to support multi-item select, we (I) kept it at redo for single items, rather than not having redo for that given release.

    I can see that product management moved this to community review, encouraging others to vote. Keep the ideas coming, it definitely helps give context and show interest in various product ideas!

  • in reply to Andrew Ross

    Thank you for the response Andrew !

    Yes, it was a customization available in the SDL Tridion app store https://appstore.sdl.com/web-content-management/app/publish-from-publishing-queue-extension/632/ which was just to unzip, copy and paste into CM server and add a virtual directory in CM IIS under SDL Web -> Editor pointing to the customization folder. Which was like 1 time job of 5 minutes.

    Now it is not possible to apply this straight forward extension 8.x way in the version 9.1 and if we have to implement this then we need to customize the extension?

    So strange that when it was decided to include such a popular extension in the product itself, a simple use case was not considered..

    Just hope that SDL includes this as a hotfix in near future, because it is possible to select multiple items and right click. You also see the Redo option but in disabled mode, should be fairly easy to enable it. The fix is going to be a great help to many customers, else it's going to be more & more frustrating.

    Good if someone can share the steps on how to use this old extension in Sites 9.1 way using add on service.

  • This sounds like a customization made to your specific implementation since "redo" option was just introduced in v9.1 afaik (unless 9.0?)