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Comala Publishing is designed to publish content from a source space to an “empty” target space. Although any space with existing content can be configured as a target space for publishing, you may encounter some problems when publishing. In this example, after copying your current production space to your new development space, you need to delete the content (except for the space homepage) in your existing production space before publishing from the new source development space.
In the development (DEV) space
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Original page URL in the production space
/wiki/spaces/PROD/pages/2438561796/Product+Team+Ethos
Published page URL in the development space
/wiki/spaces/DEV/pages/2438693479/Product+Team+Ethos
Published page URL in the production space with new contentID
/wiki/spaces/PROD/pages/2438823986/Product+Team+Ethos
The backward publishing of pages from the production source space to the development space updates the spacekey used in the page URL to the production spacekey.
this is a new page in the PROD space and will have a new contentID
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