Different way to unpublished the item in sitecore

Discover the different way to unpublish the item in sitecoreUnpublish sitecore Item

Ashish Bansal[Pick the date]

Unpublish the sitecore Item

IntroductionUnpublishing means disappear the item/page from front end site which means delete the item from target database, so we can achieve the target.

Today we are exploring the different way to unpublish or delete the item in sitecore using below approaches

Approch1. Change publishing setting to never publish Approch2. Change publishing Restriction setting Approch3. Through Unpublish Field under Publishing section Approch4. Delete the Item from Target Database


Approch1. Change publishing setting to never publish

Steps:

1. Go to the item that wishes to unpublished:2. Check the standard field checkbox in view tab in stecore ribbon.3. Go to publishing section4. Select never publish check boxW35. Publish the item (with smart publish)6. Item will delete/Unpublished from target database7. See the screen shot below for reference:



Approch2. Change publishing Restriction setting

In this approach we will change publish restriction setting of item

Steps:

1. Go to the item2. Go to Publish tab > Change button >3. Unselect publishable checkbox > Ok>4. Publish the item (with smart publish)5. Item will delete/Unpublished from target database6. See the screen shot below for reference:



Approch3. Through Unpublish Field under Publishing section

In this approach, we will delete/unpublish the item from unpublish field provided in publishing section, kindly follow the below steps to unpublish the item from this approaches:

Steps:

1. Go to the item that wishes to unpublished:2. Check the standard field checkbox in view tab in stecore ribbon.3. Go to publishing section4. Go to Publish Field, Click on Clear button in publish field, if any value exists. 5. Go to UnPublish Field and click on Now button6. Publish the item (with smart publish)7. Item will delete/Unpublished from target database8. See the screen shot below for reference:



Approch4. Delete the Item from Target Database

This is just straight forward approach, sometime the situation occur, when we need to delete/unpublish the item without running the publishing wizard, in that case we can directly delete the item from target database.

Steps

1. Change the database > using database selector or from query string (append this on end of the url “&database =web”)

2. Select the items that need to delete3. Delete the item


Note: one problem that I can see with the approach 4 is that, item will delete in the target database but still exist in Index file (Lucene or solr) and item can searchable through search.

The solution is to delete the item from index as well; you can follow my one of the blog for the same solution http://sitecoresolution.blogspot.com/2016/04/delete-sitecore-item-from-solr-index.html

http://sitecoresolution.blogspot.com/2016/04/delete-sitecore-item-from-solr-index.html


Thank YouAshish Bansal

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Different way to unpublished the item in sitecore