Publishes an existing Joomla article so it appears on the frontend. Pair it with Create Article or Content After Save when the workflow — not an editor click — decides go-live.
Publishes an existing Joomla article so it appears on the frontend. Pair it with Create Article or Content After Save when the workflow — not an editor click — decides go-live.
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.
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:
Common patterns on the canvas:
Article ID on the Design tab.
Pair with workflow or Content After Save triggers for approval-to-publish automation.
The designer shows these tabs for this node:
| Tab | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Info | Plain-language description and output payload fields for downstream steps |
| General | Canvas label and read-only node ID |
| AI | Optional assistant to help draft settings from plain language |
| Design | Node-specific configuration fields |
These fields are managed by the designer or runtime — you do not type into them directly:
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
_nodeId | Node ID | node-id | No | — | — |
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
label | Label | text | No | — | Node label |
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
id | Article to Publish | article-select | Yes | — | — |
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.
After this step runs, later nodes can reference these fields using placeholders such as {{publish_article.id}}.
| Field key | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id | string | Primary record identifier. |
state | number | Published state (0 = unpublished, 1 = published). |
success | boolean | Whether the operation completed successfully. |
Other steps in the same area of the palette:
create-article) — Articlesdelete-article) — Articlesunpublish-article) — Articlesupdate-article) — Articles