Activate the publication

The availability of the publication to users on the user interface and to solution designers for editing depends on the setting of the Publication State attribute: As long as the Publication State attribute is set to Plan,

Publications with the Publication State attribute set to Active can not be edited in Alfabet Expand. If you want to change a publication configuration that is currently Active and used on the Alfabet user interface, re-set the Publication State attribute to Plan.

Publications in with the Publication State attribute set to Retired can neither be executed in the Alfabet user interface nor edited in Alfabet Expand.

• Plan: The publication is editable in Alfabet Expand. The publication is not available in the Alfabet user interface. It is not included in drop-down lists displaying available publications. Functionalities that directly execute the publication will throw an error message informing the user that the publication is currently inactive.
• Active: The publication is not editable in Alfabet Expand. The publication is available in the Alfabet user interface and can be executed.
• Retired: The publication is neither editable in Alfabet Expand nor avilable for execution.

You cannot set the Publication State attribute directly in the attribute window.

1. Right-click the publication node and select Set Publication State to 'Active' to activate the publication.

   The options to change the state of publications are also available on publication group folders. If you use the options on the publication group folder, the status change will be applied to all publications in the publication group folder.