In ELMA, you publish objects in order to save and apply the changes you made in ELMA Designer and make them available in Web Application. Sometimes you also have to restart the server to apply changes.
There are two ways to publish objects:
In ELMA Designer, open the object page and click Save - Publish in the toolbar. In the opened window (fig. 1), click OK to confirm publishing. You can add a comment to the published object, if necessary.
The Objects portlet on the Publishing tab (fig. 2) displays the number of object drafts, published objects, objects, requiring publishing and deleted objects.
Fig. 2. "Publishing" tab. "Objects" portlet
Drafts – number of changed and saved but not published objects. You can view the changes only in ELMA Designer. To apply them you have to publish the objects and restart the server.
Published – number of published objects.
Server restart is required – number of published objects, which require server restart to apply changes.
Deleted – number of deleted objects.
When you click a number of objects, the Objects section of the Publishing tab opens.
Publishing tab. Objects section
There are several ways to open this section:
click a number of objects on the Objects portlet;
click Go to Objects at the top of the Objects portlet;
click Common – Objects, in the toolbar of the Publishing tab.
The Objects section includes the following tabs: Drafts, Published, Restart is required. The active tab is dark-yellow.
"Drafts" tab – list of changed and saved but not published objects (fig. 3). This tab allows publishing objects in groups.
To publish several objects at the same time, go to the Publishing tab, Objects section select the required object (by holding Ctrl) and click Publish (fig. 7) in the toolbar or in the context menu on the Drafts tab (fig. 3).
