Channels

Channel listing

With Terminalfour you can publish to a number of Channels or devices in multiple formats.

System Administration > Set up Sites & Channels > Channels displays a listing of Channels.

You can change the number of Channel records displayed on the page and use the filter to narrow the Channels displayed.

The listing shows:

1. The Channel Name, description and the ID number.
2. How many microsites the channel has.
3. The Actions button with a drop-down list to Edit, Reset content, New Microsite and Delete. These options are explained in more detail below.

Create new channel

This screen is also displayed when editing an existing channel.

Select Create new Channel to open the create new channel page. The options to be completed are displayed in the following sections.

1. General information
2. Output information
3. Page Layouts and content
4. Fulltext defaults
5. Available file extensions
6. Publish options
7. Access control and personalization
8. Poll
9. Pending version output

Hovering over the fields will bring up a tooltip that provides further information on the field. Below is an example of the tooltip displayed for the Channel publish URL:

The options are as follows (* indicates a required field):

Each Channel can be modified using the Actions button on the channel listing page. The options are:

A Microsite requires similar information to a Channel and specific information which can differ from the parent Channel. There are two types of Microsites:

1. Symbolic Microsite: the Base HREF is the same for both the Channel and the Microsite
2. Fully-formed Microsite: the Microsite is on a different domain to the Channel, or is on a sub-domain of the Channel

For further information, refer to the documentation on Microsites.

When Channel Cleanup is enabled, all pages and files that have been moved and deleted will be moved and deleted in the server's output directory at each publish. This is enabled globally in Preview & publish settings.

If you are still seeing deleted files in your output directory following a publish, check that Channel Cleanup has been enabled.

The Channel must have been published once with the following two options checked:

1. Publish archive sections
2. Override publish period restriction

That initial publish is then used as the baseline for subsequent publishes.

Only files that were referenced during the baseline publish will be removed when they're no longer referenced. Files that may have been located within the published file structure and were not referenced during the baseline publish will not be deleted. 

Administrators can assign publish rights to other users. These settings offer different models to be used across Channels, Microsites, user roles and individual users. It is recommended that these publish models are thought through in detail before implementing them.

Assign a Moderator or Power User to a channel/microsite

Individual Moderators and Power users can be assigned to Channels and/or Microsites under their user profile at System Administration > User Rights & Roles > User Management > Edit.

"Publish now" for Moderators and Power Users

You can enable "Publish now" functionality for Moderators and Power Users which will then allow them to immediately publish content and Sections that they have access to.

1. First Enable "Publish now" functionality under System Administration > System Settings > Preview & Publish.
2. Then you can set the "Publish now" minimum user level under System Administration > User Rights & Roles > Role Customization > Preview/Publish. 
   You can also set the 'Publish now' minimum user level when the user is assigned to Channel/Microsite.

To cancel a scheduled publish you can disable or delete the task in the Task Scheduler.

To cancel a publish that is running restart your application server (e.g. Tomcat).