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title: "Get started with Comala Publishing for Cloud"
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## <span style="color: #172b4d">Get started</span>

<span style="color: #172b4d">Comala Publishing for Confluence Cloud publishes and syncs pages between spaces in the same Confluence site.</span>

![cpc_collage_sourcespace_publishingreport_publishingdialogbox.png](media://123ff60f-efc5-459c-b3b9-feea1ee2504b)

A space administrator must enable publishing from a source space to a target space and have Confluence permissions for both spaces.

After the space is set up for publishing, a space administrator can publish all pages at once and configure the publishing settings to grant or deny permission for page editors to publish on a page-by-page basis.

Both editors and space administrators can track the page sync state using the [publishing report](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/1072562207) accessed from the source space.

### Enable publishing in a space

The space administrator can [configure and enable publishing](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/1328545967) in a space using the **Configure Publishing** setup tool in the app space settings.

![cpc_spacesettings_publishing_dashboard_not_configured.png](media://57e8c6b2-671a-46ee-9b98-68c5fda8c88a)

### Publishing settings and permissions

After enabling the space for publishing by adding a target space, the space administrator can use the [app space settings](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/646644089) to manage what is copied for a page and how pages can be published.

![cpc_publishingdashboard_selectuserpermissionsforpublishingoption_targetspace human resources_addonuser_selected.png](media://4a29aa35-1e43-4aba-8f98-1e25ca1de809)

A user publishing a page and a space administrator publishing all the pages in a space requires **view** and **edit **permission in the source space. By default, the add-on user is set as the user performing the publishing action, and the [Comala Publishing app add-on user permissions](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/1433075760) in the target space are used for publishing.

If the app add-on user is not selected in the **Select user performing publishing action** setting, the user performing the publishing action needs **view** and edit **permission** in the target space as well as in the source space.

![cpc_selectuserforpublishing_dropdownoptions.png](media://d6645009-fbdf-4baa-83c9-a0c49505dcd1)

> 📝 Page-level restrictions can affect the ability to publish a page if the publishing user is not included in the restrictions.

### Publishing pages

There are two ways to publish pages using the app on its own:

[Single-page publishing](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/646578988)

Page editors can publish single pages using the [publishing byline](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/646252111) to open the publishing popup

![cpc_publishingpopup_newstatus.png](media://0b806ebc-fe4e-4a12-ae4e-77c21ad9b0ae)

[Space publishing](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/646578843)

Space administrators can publish all the pages in a space in a single publishing action using the **Publish space** option in the [space settings publishing dashboard](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/646252290).

![image](media://9da4f872-27ac-408c-a8b4-f91483901b38)

Comala Publishing also works with our Comala Document Management family of apps [using an added Comala workflow](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/1091043351). Adding automated workflows to your pages and spaces helps you better manage the document lifecycle, automatically allowing audiences to see published pages upon approval.

After publishing is configured for a space, you can track what pages and spaces are in sync using the[ publishing report](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPCL/pages/1085473466).  

![cpc_publishingreport.png](media://99f6cf5b-4b2c-4146-9abf-b20f3b16e299)

You can filter the pages displayed in the report by a keyword in the page title, the publishing state, and, if a Comala workflow is applied in the space, by the final workflow state. The space administrator can also publish the listed pages directly from the report.

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