Issue
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I would like to understand from the Product's point of view what would be the best way to create a new website using the Publications tool.
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What would be the best option among the scenarios below:
- Create the website first, then the publication for pages and content?
- Create the publication and then all the page content within the publication?
Environment
- Liferay DXP 7.3
- Liferay DXP 7.4
Resolution
- If it is feasible to make the site publicly available before full launch, a good practice would be to:
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Create the site in a publication with the minimum number of pages required I.E. a single Under Construction/Coming Soon Page
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Publish publication
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Create a publication with content that must be shared by all pages.
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Publish publication.
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Create multiple publications where each works on related content but not required by the other publications to keep the dataset modest in size and that you minimize conflicts later on.
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Set the permissions of each page to be hidden to guest users.
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Publish the publication as they are ready.
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Create a final publication to change all page permissions to allow guest views and schedule that for launch day.
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- If the previous option is not viable because the site cannot be made public before the entire site is completed, you must create everything in a single post. This is possible, but the editing experience may become slower as the dataset gets larger, but the process should be quite simple:
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Create publication
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Add site and content
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Schedule for launch day.
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Additional Information
- Liferay is working on the improving performance for large datasets
- For more details on using Publications, see: Publications