# Publish-Item

Publishes a Sitecore item.

## Syntax

Publish-Item \[-Item] \<Item> \[-Recurse] \[-Target \<String\[]>] \[-PublishMode \<Unknown | Full | Incremental | SingleItem | Smart>] \[-PublishRelatedItems] \[-RepublishAll] \[-CompareRevisions] \[-FromDate \<DateTime>] \[-AsJob] \[-Language \<String\[]>]

Publish-Item \[-Path] \<String> \[-Recurse] \[-Target \<String\[]>] \[-PublishMode \<Unknown | Full | Incremental | SingleItem | Smart>] \[-PublishRelatedItems] \[-RepublishAll] \[-CompareRevisions] \[-FromDate \<DateTime>] \[-AsJob] \[-Language \<String\[]>]

Publish-Item -Id \<String> \[-Database \<String>] \[-Recurse] \[-Target \<String\[]>] \[-PublishMode \<Unknown | Full | Incremental | SingleItem | Smart>] \[-PublishRelatedItems] \[-RepublishAll] \[-CompareRevisions] \[-FromDate \<DateTime>] \[-AsJob] \[-Language \<String\[]>]

## Detailed Description

The Publish-Item command publishes the Sitecore item and optionally subitems. Allowing for granular control over languages and modes of publishing.

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## Parameters

### -Recurse \<SwitchParameter>

Specifies that subitems should also get published with the root item.

| Aliases                     |       |
| --------------------------- | ----- |
| Required?                   | false |
| Position?                   | named |
| Default Value               |       |
| Accept Pipeline Input?      | false |
| Accept Wildcard Characters? | false |

### -Target \<String\[]>

Specifies one or many publishing targets. The default target database is "web".

| Aliases                     |       |
| --------------------------- | ----- |
| Required?                   | false |
| Position?                   | named |
| Default Value               |       |
| Accept Pipeline Input?      | false |
| Accept Wildcard Characters? | false |

### -PublishMode \<PublishMode>

Specified the Publish mode. Valid values are:

* Full
* Incremental
* SingleItem
* Smart

| Aliases                     |       |
| --------------------------- | ----- |
| Required?                   | false |
| Position?                   | named |
| Default Value               |       |
| Accept Pipeline Input?      | false |
| Accept Wildcard Characters? | false |

### -PublishRelatedItems \<SwitchParameter>

Turns publishing of related items on. Works only on Sitecore 7.2 or newer

| Aliases                     |       |
| --------------------------- | ----- |
| Required?                   | false |
| Position?                   | named |
| Default Value               |       |
| Accept Pipeline Input?      | false |
| Accept Wildcard Characters? | false |

### -RepublishAll \<SwitchParameter>

Republishes all items provided to the publishing job.

| Aliases                     |       |
| --------------------------- | ----- |
| Required?                   | false |
| Position?                   | named |
| Default Value               |       |
| Accept Pipeline Input?      | false |
| Accept Wildcard Characters? | false |

### -CompareRevisions \<SwitchParameter>

Turns revision comparison on.

| Aliases                     |       |
| --------------------------- | ----- |
| Required?                   | false |
| Position?                   | named |
| Default Value               |       |
| Accept Pipeline Input?      | false |
| Accept Wildcard Characters? | false |

### -FromDate \<DateTime>

Publishes items newer than the date provided only.

| Aliases                     |       |
| --------------------------- | ----- |
| Required?                   | false |
| Position?                   | named |
| Default Value               |       |
| Accept Pipeline Input?      | false |
| Accept Wildcard Characters? | false |

### -AsJob \<SwitchParameter>

The Sitecore API called to perform the publish is different with this switch. You may find that events fire as expected using this.

| Aliases                     |       |
| --------------------------- | ----- |
| Required?                   | false |
| Position?                   | named |
| Default Value               |       |
| Accept Pipeline Input?      | false |
| Accept Wildcard Characters? | false |

### -Language \<String\[]>

Language of the item that should be published. Supports globbing/wildcards. Allows for more than one language to be provided at once. e.g. "en\*", "pl-pl"

| Aliases                     |       |
| --------------------------- | ----- |
| Required?                   | false |
| Position?                   | named |
| Default Value               |       |
| Accept Pipeline Input?      | false |
| Accept Wildcard Characters? | false |

### -Item \<Item>

| Aliases                     |                                |
| --------------------------- | ------------------------------ |
| Required?                   | true                           |
| Position?                   | 1                              |
| Default Value               |                                |
| Accept Pipeline Input?      | true (ByValue, ByPropertyName) |
| Accept Wildcard Characters? | false                          |

### -Path \<String>

Path to the item that should be published - can work with Language parameter to narrow the publication scope.

| Aliases                     |       |
| --------------------------- | ----- |
| Required?                   | true  |
| Position?                   | 1     |
| Default Value               |       |
| Accept Pipeline Input?      | false |
| Accept Wildcard Characters? | false |

### -Id \<String>

Id of the item that should be published - can work with Language parameter to narrow the publication scope.

| Aliases                     |       |
| --------------------------- | ----- |
| Required?                   | true  |
| Position?                   | named |
| Default Value               |       |
| Accept Pipeline Input?      | false |
| Accept Wildcard Characters? | false |

### -Database \<String>

| Aliases                     |       |
| --------------------------- | ----- |
| Required?                   | false |
| Position?                   | named |
| Default Value               |       |
| Accept Pipeline Input?      | false |
| Accept Wildcard Characters? | false |

## Inputs

The input type is the type of the objects that you can pipe to the cmdlet.

* Sitecore.Data.Items.Item

## Outputs

The output type is the type of the objects that the cmdlet emits.

* None.

## Notes

Help Author: Michael West, Adam Najmanowicz

## Examples

### EXAMPLE 1

```powershell
PS master:\> Publish-Item -Path master:\content\home -Target Internet
```

### EXAMPLE 2

```powershell
PS master:\> Get-Item -Path master:\content\home | Publish-Item -Recurse -PublishMode Incremental
```

### EXAMPLE 3

```powershell
PS master:\> Get-Item -Path master:\content\home | Publish-Item -Recurse -Language "en*"
```

### EXAMPLE 4

Publish to many databases

```
PS master:\> $targets = [string[]]@('web','internet')
PS master:\> Publish-Item -Path master:\content\home -Target $targets
```

## Related Topics

* <https://github.com/SitecorePowerShell/Console/>


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