Objects tab

In the following screenshot, you can see the Objects tab. This is where changes made to objects are logged.

The main categories are website and Global objects. The first category contains object changes connected to the current website, whilst the second one contains object changes for global objects.

Using the Server drop-down, you can choose the target server that you want to synchronize. By choosing (all), you perform synchronization for all available target servers. Then you can perform one of the following actions using the buttons at the bottom:

•	Synchronize selected - performs synchronization for all tasks selected by the check-boxes () on the target server;

•	Synchronize all - performs synchronization for all listed tasks on the target server; in case you made any changes to content on the target server in the meantime, these changes will be overwritten

•	Delete selected - deletes all tasks selected by the check-boxes () on the target server

•	Delete all - deletes all listed tasks on the target server

When you select a particular object category, you get also the following manual action offered. This action is manual because it is not related to the listed tasks and can be performed even if there are no synchronization tasks logged:

•	Synchronize current sub-tree - synchronizes all objects in the selected category

The following types of tasks are logged for objects. You can see the type in the Task type column:

•	CREATEOBJ - new object was created

•	UPDATEOBJ - object was modified

•	DELETEOBJ - object was deleted

•	ADDTOSITE - object was assigned to a site; applicable only to site-related objects

•	REMOVEFROMSITE - object was removed from a site; applicable only to site-related objects

The following types of tasks are logged for folders in media libraries:

•	CREATEFOLDER - folder was created

•	RENAMEFOLDER - folder was renamed

•	COPYFOLDER - folder was copied

•	MOVEFOLDER - folder was moved

•	DELETEFOLDER - folder was deleted

Please note: Global metadata changes such as changes to document types, custom tables and system tables produce staging tasks for all staging servers of all sites. In such case, it is recommended to synchronize such changes to all servers of all sites at the same time to prevent overwriting of such metadata and loosing the data by synchronizing the older tasks later.

You can use the <add key="CMSStagingTreatServerNamesAsInstances" value="true" /> key to make sure that once the global task is synchronized, it is deleted from all other servers with the same name to prevent such possibility. The default value is false since staging can use multiple target instances targeted with the same names.