Beginning from Tridion Docs 14.0, behavior of Publication Manager with conditions has been improved, especially when conditions are absent or not defined in the Conditions tab.

You might see the following three states for the conditional context:

1. No conditional context is defined or has an empty field value. The message This publication has no context set, so upon publishing all conditional content will be included. is displayed in the Conditions tab and the conditional filtering is disabled.

   
   
   
   
   

   As a result, all conditioned content within this publication is displayed in green in the preview and the content is displayed on publishing the output.

   In the example, the condition audience=admin is not defined in the Conditions tab, however, the content in the step with audience=admin is still displayed.

   
   
   
   
   

2. Conditional context is available, however, no condition or no condition value is defined. The conditional filtering excludes (hides) all conditioned content in the publication while publishing.

   
   
   
   
   

   All conditioned content is displayed in red in the preview.

   
   
   
   
   

3. Condition and condition values are defined, and content is included or excluded as defined by the conditions. The content is displayed in green or red accordingly in the preview.

   
   
   
   
   

   The content is displayed in green or red accordingly in the preview.

   In the example, the condition audience=admin is defined in the Conditions tab. Therefore, the content in the step with audience=admin is displayed.