Why it says Action Delete is pending if we unpublish parent page

[supriya-hande]

Hello All,

There is a parent page and its having some child pages. I unpublished parent page(it will unpublish all child pages) and then its showing Published status for Parent page as: Not Published. Action 'Delete' is pending. All child pages got removed from this parent. I am not sure why this has happened and I saw such behaviour first time. It happened  on our Production instance. I want to know why it say Action Delete is pending because I am just unpublishing pages. Does anyone know what cloud be the reason or any OOTB unpublish workflow going in wrong way.

[EstebanBustamante]

Hi, 

Was the parent page deactivated? I think sometimes you see the "pending.." message when the replication queue is full/blocked and it has put your page in the queue. On the other hand, and from a technical perspective, i think you should deactivate not the parent directly but instead, deactivate the children first and then the parent.

[aanchal-sikka · Accepted solution]

Hello @supriya-hande 

I have used the OOTB Manage publication to unpublish a subTree. If you would notice the reqType=DELETE. This is ok, because an unpublish from author is a delete from publish.

These nodes would be removed.

2023/09/27 17:05:08:677 - INFO - Request accepted with distribution package PackageMessage(pubSlingId=8eeeaa01-8821-4688-ab02-813a9e0bfade, reqType=DELETE, pkgId=b7aa2ebc-9060-4740-be44-5e21531b283b, pkgType=journal_filevault, pkgLength=0, pubAgentName=publish, userId=replication-service, paths=[/content/test/language-masters/en/VaccineLP, ... 6 more], deepPaths=[]) at offset=69650686

Reverse for publishing the type is ADD

2023/09/27 17:03:51:897 - INFO - Successfully applied package with id dstrpck-1695834219997-7dcb20bd-02e6-4549-8620-8d67c8933c74, type ADD, paths [/content/test/language-masters/en/VaccineLP]

Please try on lower environments, you should be able to replicate the behaviour

[kautuk_sahni]

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