What gets published
When you publish a process module as a website, the following rules are used to determine if an element is included in the website.
- The element is listed explicitly in the process module. This includes elements incorporated via extends from another process module.
- The element is linked directly or indirectly to an element in the table of contents via an outgoing link.
You can determine if a link is outgoing or incoming by the direction and color of the arrows displayed in the editors, for outgoing and for incoming. For example, extends in Figure 1. is an outgoing link.
Example 1: Add a task to the process module. The roles needed to perform that task will also be published, because Task to Role is outgoing.
Example 2: Add a role to the process module. This will not add any tasks, because the links from Role to Task are incoming. Only those tasks already in the process will be published.
Example 3: Add a category they is named All Roles that has a Parent of link to every role. When published, this category will only list the roles needed by the process, not every role. Category Parent of links are incoming.
Example 4: Add a category whose children are not needed by the process. The category will be treated the same as if it had no children at all. Empty categories do not publish, so the empty category will also be excluded from publishing. Outgoing links form a chain, so if A has a link to B has a link to C, then C is also published.