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. Example: widget on a page.
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 on the source site 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:
- result of the whole deployment event (was the whole deployment to all target sites successful?)
- result of the data items sent (per site) (was all content/data items deployed on a target site?)
Deployment event result
A deployment event can have one or more deployment instances depending on whether there is one target site or multiple target sites.
Failed deployment
Single target site: At least one item cannot be successfully copied over and the whole deployment instance was cancelled.
Multiple target sites: Nothing was copied over to any selected sites.
Partially successful deployment
Single target site: n/a
Multiple target sites: All items were successfully copied over to at least one target site, AND at least one item failed to be copied over to at least one other target site.
Successful deployment
Single target site: All content/data items were successfully copied over to the target site.
Multiple target sites - All content/data items were successfully copied over to all target sites.
Content/Data items results (per site)
If errors are encountered during the deployment of specific data items to a target site, each error is logged. If there are data errors for a specific site, deployment will be flagged as 'failed' near the bottom of the Content Deployment Log page. A More Info button provides access to the specific errors found.Related help
