Comments on: Why won’t this publication delete? – Published items http://www.tridiondeveloper.com/why-wont-this-publication-delete Tridion Development portfolio and blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:37:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.tridiondeveloper.com/why-wont-this-publication-delete/comment-page-1#comment-8 admin Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:14:50 +0000 http://www.tridiondeveloper.com/why-wont-this-publication-delete#comment-8 <p>Quirijn, thanks for the comments and feedback.</p> <p>Erwin - thanks, there are a variety of reasons why unpublishing the whole publication will not work. Here are a couple of examples (i'm sure there are many more!):</p> <p>1) There are X amount of published pages within a structure group. The structure group is modified so that it is no longer publishable. Unfortunately removing the right to publish also removes the right to unpublish.</p> <p>2) Pages are checked-out</p> <p>3) If the publication uses 2 different publication targets and all containing pages are published. Then the publication is modified to use only one publication target without the pages first being published.</p> <p>The idea of the code published is to give you an idea where these pages are located, then you can do you own analysis as to why they are not unpublishing. I've recently written a little bit of code to search structure groups and set their isPublishable value to true, i'll post it later.</p> Quirijn, thanks for the comments and feedback.

Erwin – thanks, there are a variety of reasons why unpublishing the whole publication will not work. Here are a couple of examples (i’m sure there are many more!):

1) There are X amount of published pages within a structure group. The structure group is modified so that it is no longer publishable. Unfortunately removing the right to publish also removes the right to unpublish.

2) Pages are checked-out

3) If the publication uses 2 different publication targets and all containing pages are published. Then the publication is modified to use only one publication target without the pages first being published.

The idea of the code published is to give you an idea where these pages are located, then you can do you own analysis as to why they are not unpublishing. I’ve recently written a little bit of code to search structure groups and set their isPublishable value to true, i’ll post it later.

]]> By: Erwin Sigterman http://www.tridiondeveloper.com/why-wont-this-publication-delete/comment-page-1#comment-7 Erwin Sigterman Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:06:06 +0000 http://www.tridiondeveloper.com/why-wont-this-publication-delete#comment-7 Why don't you unpublish the whole publication before trying to delete it? Why don’t you unpublish the whole publication before trying to delete it?

]]> By: Quirijn http://www.tridiondeveloper.com/why-wont-this-publication-delete/comment-page-1#comment-9 Quirijn Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:16:05 +0000 http://www.tridiondeveloper.com/why-wont-this-publication-delete#comment-9 This is definitely a recognizable problem, and you have provided a helpful solution. Don't forget by the way that there may also be components that are published dynamically. You would need to run a similar script to find those. And why not unpublish them from the page template while you're at it? Set up an array with all the relevant publishing targets, and unpublish the pages and components once you have found them. This is definitely a recognizable problem, and you have provided a helpful solution. Don’t forget by the way that there may also be components that are published dynamically. You would need to run a similar script to find those.
And why not unpublish them from the page template while you’re at it?
Set up an array with all the relevant publishing targets, and unpublish the pages and components once you have found them.

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