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title: "Unsubscribing entities from syndication"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Learn how to unsubscribe entities from Content Hub syndication to maintain local changes on subscriber sites. Discover manual methods, Drush commands, and best practices for managing content updates across your Drupal network."
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Note

The manual unsubscribe feature is available in Content Hub 3.3.0 and later.

After you import content into a subscriber, it continues to receive updates from the publisher. Content Hub administrators and content editors might prefer to keep content changes made on the subscriber. Unsubscribing content from Content Hub syndication keeps local changes intact and prevents future updates to the content on a subscriber.

Important

*   You cannot import unsubscribed entities. To unsubscribe entities, you must first import the content to a subscriber site.
    
*   Unsubscribing content works at the individual subscriber level. There is no mechanism for unsubscribing content from all subscribers simultaneously. You must unsubscribe on a site-by-site basis.
    
*   When you delete an entity on the publisher and unsubscribe it on a subscriber, Content Hub removes the entity from the subscriber’s interest list. However, Content Hub does not delete the entity on the subscriber.
    

To manually unsubscribe entities from syndication, you can follow one of these:

*   [Using Publisher’s Dashboard](#using-publisher-s-dashboard)
    
*   [Using Drush](#using-drush)
    
*   [Using the acquia\_contenthub\_unsubscribe module (deprecated)](#using-the-acquia-contenthub-unsubscribe-module-deprecated)
    

Using Publisher’s Dashboard
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1.  Navigate to the Publisher’s Dashboard and click **Content**.
    
2.  On the Content page, find the entity you want to unsubscribe.
    
3.  Click **View Syndication Details** for the specific entity.
    
    ![Content page displays the subscriber details.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/vnaom03c1h/jpeg/Content%20Page.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=o0sjj1)
    
    Content Hub displays a modal. The subscription status for each subscriber is listed as a toggle switch.
    
4.  Locate the subscriber from where you want to unsubscribe the entity and then disable its **SUBSCRIBED** status.
    
    ![Syndication details where you can disable the subscribed status](https://acquia.widen.net/content/kdsdqkno4e/png/syndication%20details.png?crop=false&position=c&color=ffffffff&u=o0sjj1&w=600&h=440)
    

When you unsubscribe an entity from a subscriber, any future changes made to that entity by the publisher do not import to that subscriber. Additionally, Content Hub preserves any local changes made to the entity on the subscriber’s side.

Using Drush
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You can use the following Drush commands to manage entity subscriptions on subscribers:

 

**Action**

**Drush command**

Unsubscribe entities

`drush acquia:contenthub:disable-syndication --uuids=<comma-separated list of UUIDs>`

Re-subscribe entities

`drush acquia:contenthub:enable-syndication --uuids=<comma-separated list of UUIDs>`

View the interest list. This indicates the syndication status and informs if an entity is subscribed or unsubscribed.

`drush acquia:contenthub-webhook-interests-list`

**Options:**

*   `--webhook-url[=<The webhook URL that you want to use.>]`
    
*   `--format[=<The format that you want to use. For example, table or json. The default value is table.>]`
    
*   `--site-role[=<The site where you want to perform the operation.>]`
    
*   `--uuid[=<The UUID through which you want to filter your results.>]`
    
*   `--reason[=<The reason you want to filter your results.>]`
    
*   `--syndication-status[=<The syndication status through which you want to filter your results.>]`
    
*   `--disable-syndication[=<The disable syndication flag through which you want to filter your results. The values are true or false.>]`
    

Using the acquia\_contenthub\_unsubscribe module (deprecated)
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Note

The [Content Hub unsubscribe](https://www.drupal.org/project/acquia_contenthub_unsubscribe_checkbox) module is deprecated in Content Hub 3.3.0. Acquia recommends you to uninstall this module and update custom integrations to leverage the unsubscribe functionality available in Content Hub versions 3.3.0 and later.

The [Content Hub unsubscribe](https://www.drupal.org/project/acquia_contenthub_unsubscribe_checkbox) module is a low-level, experimental interface for developers to programmatically unsubscribe entities from further updates. This module is intended for advanced users who have unique requirements that are beyond the existing features.

After you import an entity for the first time, you can disable further updates to that entity by setting the entity status to `auto_update_disabled` in the import tracking table.

After you disable updates to that entity:

*   **On entity update**:
    
    When you import the entity subsequently, the subscriber checks the entity status. If the status is set to `auto_update_disabled`, the entity is excluded from subsequent updates.
    
*   **On entity delete**:
    
    If you delete an entity from a publisher, Content Hub deletes the entity from the tracking table on webhook landing. However, the actual Drupal entity remains intact.