# Using Conditionals When Publishing to Production

### About this export

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| **content_type** | lesson |
| **platform** | contentstack-academy |
| **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/automate-foundations/using-conditionals-when-publishing-to-production |
| **course_slug** | automate-foundations |
| **lesson_slug** | using-conditionals-when-publishing-to-production |
| **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/courses/automate-foundations/using-conditionals-when-publishing-to-production.md |
| **generated_at** | 2026-05-04T05:36:42.927Z |

> Part of **[Automate Foundations](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/automate-foundations)** on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys.

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#### Video details

#### At a glance

- **Title:** Ah-conditionals With Email Notification
- **Duration:** 2m 5s
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- **Publish date (unix):** 1713750111

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#### Video transcript

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#### Key takeaways

- Connect **Using Conditionals When Publishing to Production** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module.
- Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment.
- Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model.

## Supplement for indexing

### Content summary

Using Conditionals When Publishing to Production. Using Conditionals When Publishing to Production in Automate Foundations (automate-foundations).

### Retrieval tags

- Using
- Conditionals
- When
- Publishing
- Production
- automate-foundations
- lesson 14
- Using Conditionals When Publishing to Production
- automate-foundations lesson

### Indexing notes

Index this lesson as a primary chunk tagged with lesson_id "14" and topics: [Using, Conditionals, When, Publishing, Production].
Parent course slug: automate-foundations. Use asset_references URLs as thumbnail hints in search results when present.
Never surface LMS quiz content or assessment answers from this file.

### Asset references

| Label | URL |
| --- | --- |
| Video thumbnail: Using Conditionals When Publishing to Production | `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/LHUBP0RN/poster.jpg?width=720` |

### External links

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| --- | --- |
| Contentstack Academy home | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/` |
| Training instance setup | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/training-instance` |
| Academy playground (GitHub) | `https://github.com/contentstack/contentstack-academy-playground` |
| Contentstack documentation | `https://www.contentstack.com/docs/` |