Schedule publishing

You can publish the active workset immediately or schedule a future date and time to publish it.

This section applies to Open Storefront Framework (OSF) and Storefront Classic.

You can also schedule a full publish, which publishes all worksets at once.

Publish a workset

You can publish the active workset immediately or schedule it to publish at a future time.

To schedule a publish:

1. Navigate to the Changes page of the workset you want to publish from the Active Workset dropdown list.
2. Click the Publish Workset button.

   Commerce displays the workset's Review and Schedule page.

   If the workset contains any dependencies, they are listed on this page. See

3. Specify when to publish the workset:

   To publish the workset right now, click Publish Immediately.

   To publish the workset at a future time, click the Start Time field to display a calendar/clock widget where you can pick a future date and time. (Click Done to close the widget.) Then click Publish at Selected Time.

If another publish has already been scheduled for the date and time you choose, Commerce displays an error and you cannot schedule the event until you pick a date and time that does not conflict with another scheduled publish. You can reschedule a workset publish by following these steps and publishing immediately or selecting a different time to publish.

Schedule a full publish

A full publish targets all changes in all worksets. When a full publish runs, all unpublished worksets, even those that are not currently scheduled to publish, are published to your production storefront. When the full publish finishes, all worksets (except the #default workset) are removed from the schedule and deleted.

You can schedule a full publish to run one time, or you can create a schedule that runs full publishes at regular intervals, for example, nightly.

To schedule a full publish:

1. On the Publishing Schedule page, click Add to Schedule and select Full Publish... from the dropdown list.
2. In the Schedule Full Publish dialog, enter the following information:
   • A name for the publish event. The name is optional. If you do not enter a name, Commerce uses the default name, Unnamed publishing event.
   • If you are scheduling a one-time full publish event, set a start date and time, and ensure the Repeat field is set to None. The Stop Time field is disabled for one-time publish events.
   • If you are scheduling a recurring full publish, set a start date and time, and use the Repeat menu to select a time period—hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.

     The dates and times you specify here use the time zone you configured on the Location tab on your store's Setup settings. For information on viewing and changing the time zone, see Enter basic store information.

3. Click Schedule.

   The new event appears on the Publishing Schedule page.

Once you have scheduled a full publish, you cannot reschedule it. You must cancel it and then schedule a new one.

Cancel a scheduled publish

You can cancel a scheduled workset publish or a full publish on the Publishing Schedule page.

• To cancel a full publish, click the event's Delete from Schedule icon.
• To cancel a workset publish, click the workset's Unschedule Workset icon.

  Canceling a publish does not delete the workset, but marks it as Not Scheduled in the Publishing Schedule.