Actually, it seems like the "Publish with Descendants" isn't doing anything at all most of the time.

I can't find info on whether this is supposed to work, or the documentation on it. I'm hooked into the "ContentService_Published" event, which does some PDF saving functionality, but it only works if I do a regular "Publish", rather than "Publish with Descendants".

Im running into the same problem today: save event is firing, save and publish event is firing - but save and publish with decendants is not.

Umbraco 8.9.1

using Umbraco.Core;
using Umbraco.Core.Composing;
using Umbraco.Core.Services.Implement;
using Umbraco.Core.Logging;

[RuntimeLevel(MinLevel = RuntimeLevel.Run)]
public class ContentSavingEventComposer : ComponentComposer<SubscribeToContentEvent>
{ }

public class SubscribeToContentEvent : IComponent
{
    private readonly ILogger _logger;

    public SubscribeToContentEvent(ILogger logger)
    {
        _logger = logger;
    }


    public void Initialize()
    {
        ContentService.Published += ContentService_Published;
    }

    private void ContentService_Published(Umbraco.Core.Services.IContentService sender, Umbraco.Core.Events.ContentPublishedEventArgs e)
    {
         // this code never runs
        foreach (var node in e.PublishedEntities)
        {
            _logger.Info<SubscribeToContentEvent>(node.Name + " was published");
            node.Name = node.Name + " updated ...";
        }
    }

    public void Terminate()
    {
    }

}

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