Sitecore 8.1 Auto Publish Does not publish

Question

Hello Sitecore masters,

I have an issue with auto publish and I am not able to figure it out.

So I create some items in Sitecore with an external page and they should have a specific publish / unpublish date

So I have a publish / unpublish value, I have setup the Agent but the publish does not work and I don't know how to debug it. I check the logs and it says that items were skipped. I assume it's about my items

This how it looks in sitecore.config

<agent type="Sitecore.Tasks.PublishAgent" method="Run" interval="00:00:10">
<param desc="source database">master</param>
<param desc="target database">web</param>
<param desc="mode (full or smart or incremental)">incremental</param>
<param desc="languages">nb, en</param>
</agent>

I have also changed this:

<scheduling>
<!-- Time between checking for scheduled tasks waiting to execute -->
<frequency>00:00:10</frequency>

The funny / strange thing is that if I publish manually from sitecore, Unpublish will work. The publish doesn't.

Any hint will be appreciated.

Other informations:

Answer 1

You should use the Smart publishing mode, instead of Incremental. Incremental publishing publishes all the items in the publishing queue, which is the list of items known to have been modified.

Get more info about publishing types here