Node reference

Publish Article for Joomla

Publish Article is a Step (action) in Articles. Sets an article's state to published so it appears on the site frontend.

Overview

Publish Article is a Step (action) in Articles. Sets an article's state to published so it appears on the site frontend.

When the flow reaches this step, JOrchestrator executes Publish Article against your linked site or an external integration, using the field values you set on General and Design. Downstream steps can read the output payload fields defined for this node.

Why use this node

Publish Article is a action step in the Articles group. Action steps run in the middle or end of a flow. They perform work on your CMS, call external services, or transform data for the next step.

Typical reasons teams add Publish Article to a flow:

  • Publish Article on your linked Joomla site when the flow reaches this step
  • Publish article based on webhook, schedule, or CMS event data
  • Integrate Articles operations with messaging, AI, or database steps in one canvas

Example workflows

Common patterns on the canvas:

  1. Trigger or Webhook → upstream steps → Publish ArticleSend Email or CMS update
  2. Scheduled triggerPublish ArticleDebug (while testing) → production action

How to set it up

Article ID on the Design tab.

Good to know

Pair with workflow or Content After Save triggers for approval-to-publish automation.

Properties panel

The designer shows these tabs for this node:

TabPurpose
InfoPlain-language description and output payload fields for downstream steps
GeneralCanvas label and read-only node ID
AIOptional assistant to help draft settings from plain language
DesignNode-specific configuration fields

System (automatic — not edited by the user)

These fields are managed by the designer or runtime — you do not type into them directly:

Property keyLabelTypeRequiredVisible whenNotes
_nodeIdNode IDnode-idNo

User-configured — General tab

Property keyLabelTypeRequiredVisible whenNotes
labelLabeltextNoNode label

CMS-backed (options from the linked site)

Property keyLabelTypeRequiredVisible whenNotes
idArticle to Publisharticle-selectYes

CMS site configuration (not on this node's properties panel)

Credentials, API keys, mailers, SMTP, and integration defaults are configured in the CMS plugin under Node Configuration, not per step on this node. Link the flow to a domain before testing CMS-backed fields.

Output payload fields

After this step runs, later nodes can reference these fields using placeholders such as {{publish_article.id}}.

Field keyTypeDescription
idstringPrimary record identifier.
statenumberPublished state (0 = unpublished, 1 = published).
successbooleanWhether the operation completed successfully.