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Is is possible to perform autopublish of item on intermediate, not final state of sitecore workflow?

Sitecore 9.0.1, Admin user.

I have custom workflow with the following states:

1. Editing
   
   
   • Submit
   
   


2. Reviewing
   
   
   • Approve (autopublish item to web database)
     
     
     • Auto Publish Action
     
     
   
   
   • Reject (move item to Editing)
   
   


3. Published
   
   
   • Approve (autopublish item to production database)
     
     
     • Auto Publish Action
     
     
   
   
   • Reject (move item to Editing)
   
   


4. On Production (final state)

When item goes from Reviewing -> Published state (by approval) - it's not being autopublished. It works only from Published -> On Production.

I've tried to achieve this by Sitecore.Workflows.Simple.PublishAction

I also tried to wrote custom processor for this and do publish via code:

PublishManager.PublishItem(dataItem, targets, master, isDeep, false, publishRelated); 

or

var po = new PublishOptions(master,
 targetDb,
 PublishMode.SingleItem,
 lang,
 System.DateTime.Now);
po.RootItem = dataItem;

Publisher publisher = new Publisher(po);
publisher.Publish();

Code executes, but nothing publishes, no errors in logs.

Is it even possible?

The piece you're missing is that on that intermediate workflow state (Reviewing, in your example) you need to set the Preview publishing targets field:

Check your web target in that field for your Reviewing state and the auto-publish action should work as expected.

Note: if your target does not show up in this list, you may need to navigate to the publishing targets (/sitecore/system/publishing targets) and check the Preview publishing target checkbox: