Content Server - Publish to Directory Feature

Question

Is there anyway to automatically publish content items to a folder in the Knowledge Directory in addition to the publishing target within Content Server? I see that you can rclick on individual "articles" and publish them to the KD. We just want that to happen automatically whenever an item is published.

Answer 1

The "reference" Content Item would use a Data Entry Template that had an item reference property, and a Presentation Template which just used the Insert tag on that item property, e.g. <pcs:insert expr="My_Item"></pcs:insert>.
Then you could create "reference" Content items that refered that item you want published multiple times, placing those "reference" Content items in a folder with a different publishing target. Thus when that "reference" item is published, it will effectively publish the item to which it refers to a different location. You could also employ the Related Item Publishing feature contained in the Data Entry Template in order to automate this somewhat, so that when one item is published the other is published automatically as well.
But this is all a bit of a hack and awkward. If you need to rely on identical published content existing in multiple places in a production setting, I still recommend using a file replication utility.