Live Publishing Status
See publishing status in SiteEdit live
Live Publish Status (LPS) allows you to view the items that are currently being published without refreshing, this information is displayed on all pages of staging/Development servers and allows instant access to the following information, How many items in the publish queue and who it is publishing, if the page you are looking at is scheduled for publishing etc, when the page was last published to staging/Development and how long it took to publish the last time.
How it works
Once the code is running on your server, you will get a status window on each page that will look like this.
Dont forget to put the password in the publishstatus.asp page.
1. Create a TBB with the following code in it
Dim IS_PREVIEW_MODE: IS_PREVIEW_MODE = (Instr(1, RenderMode, "preview", 1) > 0)
Function InitializePublishStatus()
If Not IS_PREVIEW_MODE Then
WriteOut "<%If Instr(Request.ServerVariables(""SERVER_NAME""),""staging."") > 0 Then%>"& VBNEWLINE
WriteOut " <script type=""text/javascript"">"& VBNEWLINE
WriteOut " document.write(""<div id='PublishStatus'></div>"");"& VBNEWLINE
WriteOut " xmlhttpPost('URL_TO_PUBLISH_STATUS_PAGE_ON_STAGING_PRESENTATION_SERVER.asp?tcm="& objContext.ID &"');"& VBNEWLINE
WriteOut " </script>"& VBNEWLINE
WriteOut "<%End If%>"& VBNEWLINE
End If
End Function
2. Create a JS file and include it on all webpages
function xmlhttpPost(strURL) {
var xmlHttpReq = false;
var self = this;
// Mozilla/Safari
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
self.xmlHttpReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
// IE
else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
self.xmlHttpReq = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
self.xmlHttpReq.open('POST', strURL, true);
self.xmlHttpReq.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
self.xmlHttpReq.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (self.xmlHttpReq.readyState == 4) {
updatepage(self.xmlHttpReq.responseText);
}
}
self.xmlHttpReq.send();
var f = function() {xmlhttpPost(strURL); };
setTimeout(f, 2000);
}
function updatepage(str){
document.getElementById("PublishStatus").innerHTML = str;
}
3. Add the following lines to page templates that should have LPS on
#include "tcm:X-XX-2048" ' TBB with InitializePublishStatus function in
InitializePublishStatus()%]
Tags
:
live,
publish,
status,
queue,
refresh,
instant