Terms specific to Content Lock and Deploy Content
Content Administrator
Admin role created for the Content Lock & Deploy Content features that can enable/disable locking for content types and Deploy Content in Feature Settings. NOTE - The general Administrator role also has these abilities.
Content Deployment Log
The page that contains a record of all deployment instances. The log keeps deployment data for the last 6 months.
Go to: Content → Advanced Content → Content Deployment Log.
Content Item
Top level item that can be locked (if lockable) deployed. Example: a whole page or template
Content Lock
The CV feature that allows some content types to be lockable.
Content type
How content objects for the Lock and Deploy feature are organised at the top level. It closely follows the CMS navigational menu. Examples of content types: Pages & Templates, Articles, Campaigns, Products
Data item
An object beneath the level of content type that is a deployable unit
Deploy button
The button usually located at the top of the screen that allows deployment of the whole content item.
Deploy option
The Deploy item from the Options menu that allows deployment of the data item at a specific level (usually below the Content item level).
Deployment
The action of copying over content from a source CV site to a target CV site.
Deployment instance
One count of a deployment event. where one or more data items are deployed to a target CV site from a source site.
Deployment modal
The deployment popup screen where deployment takes place.
Linked site
CV sites in an organisation's network that can be added as deployment target sites.
Lockable items
Content and data items that can be locked. Not every content types have lockable items.
Locked status
When a content or data item is locked to protect ait from being edited or deleted by non-Admin CMS roles on the same site or when deployed, any role on the target site.
Source site
A CV website where data is deployed from.
Target site
A CV website where data is deployed to.
Unlocked status
A lockable item that is unlocked for editing. To unlock a deployed locked item on a target site, unlock the locked item and deploy. This will deploy only the unlocked status.
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Deployment Result Messages
There are two levels of result messages for each deployment event:
- deployment in terms of all target sites
- deployment of the data items sent (per site)
- single linked site - all changes to selected data type(s) and items have been deployed on the destination site.
- multiple linked sites - all changes to selected data type(s) and items have been deployed on all destination sites.
Failed
- single linked site - at least one change to selected data type(s) and items cannot be deployed and the whole deployment instance was cancelled. Nothing was deployed to the selected linked site.
- multiple linked sites - at least one change to selected data type(s) and items cannot be deployed on all sites and all deployment instances were cancelled. Nothing was deployed to all selected linked sites.
Results per site are logged.
Failed deployment
A deployment event where at least one data item sent to a target CV site was not copied over successfully. Where more than one target site was selected, the deployment result to each target site will be logged as 'Content Lock & Deploy Content Glossary' or 'failed'.
Partially successful deployment
When more than one target sites were selected, all items were successfully copied over to at least one site but on at least one other target site, at least one item failed to be copied over.
Successful deployment
A deployment event where all data items sent to a target CV site were copied over successfully. Where more than one target site was selected, the deployment result to each target site will be logged as 'successful' or 'Content Lock & Deploy Content Glossary'.
- multiple linked sites - all changes to data types of selected data type(s) and items were successfully deployed to at least one site but also failed for at least one site.
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