No publish button
Asked by Kim Abbott:

Exactly at the title says - I've never seen a Publish button on any page I've created or edited. So much of the supporting documentation refers to publishing and I think this is part of the reason I can't use much of the documentation because it's not relevant.

I'm using Confluence 6.5.2 server. Anyone know what's going on?


Answers:
author: Rakesh Vashisht
body: Hi, I too have the similar issue on our Confluence page. What theme should we have to enable the Draft --\> Publish --\> Update?


author: David Redwine
body: The publish button does not show in chrome when chrome is "full screen". However if you hit the little "double box" in the extreme upper right corner of the browser and make the app "windowed", the publish button should appear.

![Jira_missing_Publish_button_when_full_screen.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/202080iF3C1CE7400DA2F3B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Jira_missing_Publish_button_when_full_screen.JPG")

comments: author: Kim Abbott
body: Nope


author: David Redwine
body: When a page has previously been created and published, (and your are using Chrome AND the browser is NOT in full screen mode) you see this.

![Confluence_page_previously_published.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/203929i20A3E88AC278D980/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Confluence_page_previously_published.JPG")

If you are creating a new page and it has never yet been published, (and your are using Chrome AND the browser is NOT in full screen mode) you see this.

![Confluence_page_never_yet_published.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/203931iA6A9260199C15597/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Confluence_page_never_yet_published.JPG")


author: Kim Abbott
body: Unfortunately that is not what we have. This is a new page, using Chrome, not maximized. No publish button.

![Confluence no publish.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/209310i287E62EFAF643C1A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Confluence no publish.png")


author: Angie Elliott
body: I have the same issue. I don't see a Publish and Draft button. Is it because I run an older version (6.15.9)? If I should be able to activate a Publish button, can someone please point me to the exact instructions? Thank you!


author: Kent Mewhort
body: I just encountered this issue as well - the whole bottom bar was missing. It's because Confluence is often quite broken in Firefox. I loaded up the page in Chrome and can see the bar.

comments: author: Kim Abbott
body: I wasn't using FF with the issue noted above. Glad it's working for you though.


author: Bharath Reddy
body: Atlassian team should have better documentation as most of the steps mentioned by them are not available in practical.


author: James Conway
body: Hi Kim,

The first time you create a page it has a 'draft' status and there is a publish button at the bottom of the editor.   
![Screenshot 2019-09-06 at 11.13.00.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/65356i1A532BA916066313/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2019-09-06 at 11.13.00.png")

Every time you edit the page after that, the 'Publish' button says 'Update' - see the first screenshot in the page linked below...  

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/the-editor-251006017.html>

Alternatively, are you looking to *publish* a page from one space to another - e.g. restricted to public? In that case you may want to explore the Comala Publishing add-on.

Hope that helps

James

comments: author: Kim Abbott
body: That's the thing, our Confluence does not look like that. There never is a Publish button. When I create a new page, the only thing showing at the bottom are Preview / Save / Close buttons. There is no Draft logo at the top. Same for editing pages.


author: James Conway
body: Are you sure that your confluence admin has not installed a theme that changes how confluence looks and arranges functions?


author: Ewald Detjens
body: I used to get a Publish button and now I don't see it. Sigh.


author: Kim Abbott
body: Is it because we run serer and not cloud? James are you on cloud Atlassian?