Publish tridion component presentation without page

Question

Can I publish a component presentation without adding it to the page? The answer seems to be yes. I have a component that is not on any pages. I published this particular component and the presentation of the component at my destination, but where does the component assemble the template? Does it collect it on the LinkedSchema tab in the template? I linked the schema used for the component in the template.

thanks

Answer 1

You understood correctly. A component is published as a presentation of a dynamic component (without a page) if there is one or more component templates:

a. associated with the circuit, the component is based on

b. marked as “publish as dynamic component”

Answer 2

Yes, that's right. When creating a component template, you specify related schemas that can use this template. Publishing a component without adding a page is called dynamic component presentation. In the general tab of the template template, you can specify this as “Published as a dynamic component” for presentations on component components based on this template. If you have a value like “Publish inline on a page”, the presentation of your component is static, so you need to associate this component with the page in order to publish it. Dynamic component presentations use a content broker database to request data and display it on a website. However, the components embedded in the page will be static and will be served from the file system (instead of the database). Hope this helps!