Retrieve the Published Copy of a Content Item

If staging is enabled then once a content item is published, it is effectively duplicated: there now exist two copies of the content item: a read-only published copy and an editable copy that exists in one of the various draft states (draft, submitted or approved). If your client application retrieves a content item using the standard content item URL, as described in Retrieve a Content Item, then it will always be the editable draft copy that is retrieved. You can, however, if required, retrieve the published copy by simply following the link with the relation rel="working-copy-of". For example:

<link href="http://host-ip-address/webservice/escenic/content/6/published" rel="working-copy-of"/>

The returned Atom entry will have the same structure as if the default draft copy had been retrieved, but the state information in the app:control element will be different, and the content in the vdf:payload element may be different if the content item has been modified since publication. The entry will have a link with the relation rel="working-copy" that points back to the editable copy.

The published copy of a content item is read-only: you cannot PUT (as described in Change a Content Item) to a working copy of URI.