In the latest release from Sitecore (7.2) a load of neat new features have been added relating to publishing. One of the major issues we’ve seen in the past is that content items are updated but then related items aren’t published correctly. The information in this post explains the updates to sitecore related item publishing.

There is a whole load of information about the updates on the sitecore blog (http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Technical-Blogs/Reinnovations/Archive.aspx) and specifically around the related items at http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Technical-Blogs/Reinnovations/Posts/2014/03/Related-Item-Publishing.aspx

During some tests, this first image shows the master db with several field types relating content. Here you can see things like RTE fields, Rendering Datasources, image fields and multilist fields.

Following a publish of the single item with the check box for ‘Publish related items’ selected, the following related items were then pushed to web:

Pretty neat! All the related items are gathered through a new pipeline so if the out the box rules don’t catch your required scenario, simply add your own steps.