Publish a Major Version: this menu is only available when file is in a checked-in status. If it’s already checked out, it can only be checked in. When action is taken, ItemCheckedIn event is not called. Instead, ItemUpdated is called. However, both BeforeProperties.ChangedProperties and AfterProperties.ChangedProperties contains zero information so you can’t tell from ItemUpdated event if this is a “publish” action.
The version # will be automatically bumped to next major version #.
Unpublish this version: same as above, it’s also only available for checked-in status. The version # will be rolled back and ItemUpdated event will be called. ItemCheckedIn is not called (obviously).
If one want to handle these 2 menu actions, seems ItemUpdated event is the only entrance. However many other actions will also trigger ItemUpdated event.
If you want to remove these 2 menus, edit core.js under \12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\ folder. I commented out a section in AddCheckinCheckoutMenuItem function to hide the Unpublish menu. I did that because for unknown reason it would cause “Access Denied” error when someone does that after we customized the security.
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