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title: "Publishing using a Comala workflow"
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## Overview

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> Publishing of a pages can be automated using Comala Publishing with an applied Comala Document Management workflow.
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> Pages in the source space can be published automatically using the applied workflow in one or more of the following ways:
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> Pages can still be published using [single-page ](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/1088816440)and [whole-space publishing](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/646578843) when publishing is configured to use a Comala workflow in the source space.
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> ### Publish a page on a transition to the workflow final state
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> A page is automatically published on the transition to the final state in the applied workflow. The workflow final state is usually your final approved page.
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> ![cpc_onpage_publishing_synced_wf_state_final_approved_popup.png](media://55e1a062-52f0-4e19-adb4-e16cc8e30557)
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> See: [Publish a page on transition to Comala workflow final state](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/646807871).
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> ### Publish a page on a workflow trigger event
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> In Comala Document Management, you can also choose to publish a page automatically on a workflow event, such as a change of workflow state.
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> ![cpc_onpage_pagepublished_firts-publish_state_notfinalstate.png](media://75fe9912-d7c2-4191-ab49-95f1fb05f2ef)
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> This enables flexible publishing, automating publication at different workflow stages. 
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> A workflow trigger **Publish Page** action can be added to a custom workflow to undertake the publishing action, for example, on a transition to the **First-Publish** state.
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> ![cdmc_visualeditor_trigger_firstpublish.png](media://b0a5688b-1e98-49f0-986b-17cd090fee7c)
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> Adding a workflow publishing trigger does not disable publishing on a transition to the **final state**. The page is published on the workflow trigger event and on the transition to the final state.
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> > 📝 To prevent duplicate publishing, do not use the **Publish Page** trigger action on a transition to the final state.
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> You can also add the workflow trigger as JSON code to a custom workflow.
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> See: [Use a Comala workflow trigger to publish a page](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/646644272).
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> ### Space publishing of pages in the workflow final state
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> The space administrator can limit a **[Space publish](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/646578843)** action to only [publish pages in the workflow's final state](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/1367900293) by enabling the **Only publish pages if they are in the final state of the workflow** option in the app space settings.
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> ![cpc_publishingdashboard_wffinalstate_active.png](media://9f27bfac-8d92-4d7b-a232-8f346d95a90c)
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> Pages that are not in the final state are not published.
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> See: [Space publish all the pages in the workflow final state](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/1367900293).
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> ### Publishing from the publishing report using the workflow final state
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> When the final workflow state filter is applied, the space administrator can publish all pages in the **workflow final state** using the **Publish** option in the [publishing report](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/1072562207).
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> ![cpc-publishingreport_finalworkflowstate_filter_active_publishingstate_filter_outofsync_onepagedisplayedandpublish.png](media://e3b15911-cd77-41a6-bd3d-6c3508f601ce)
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> You can use the **Final workflow state** filter in combination with the **Publishing state** and the page** Title **filters** **to target pages for publishing.
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> > 📝 Making the **Final workflow state** filter inactive in the publishing report does not change the app space setting.

## Comala Document Management family of apps

- [Comala Document Management for Confluence Cloud](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDMC)
- [Comala Document Control for Confluence Cloud](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDCCL)
- [Comala Document Approvals for Cloud](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDACL)

> ℹ️ A workflow from one of the Comala Document Management family of apps can be applied to pages and blog posts; *[Comala Publishing only publishes page content](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/697469115)*. The Comala Publishing app ignores blog posts with a Comala workflow applied.