How do I recover my content after a failed publication?

[mmulich]

When I have a failed publication (state: Failed/Error) the workspace link leads to a 404 and the state link leads to the roles-acceptance page. Both of these end points are dead ends.

To reproduce a failed publication, use the following.
(Note, this failure path may not exist forever, see Connexions/cnx-publishing#71 for details.)

| Book With Issue (BWI)
|- Page One (PO)
|- Page Two (PT)

1. Create a book with two pages (as shown above).
2. Publish the book.
3. Copy the link to PO.
4. Edit PT to include the link to PO *. (For good measure add a keyword to the book so that it is edited as well.)
5. Publish
6. The workspace now shows the state as "Failed/Error". If you grab the publication id and look at the publishing response you'll see the error is an InvalidReference.

This error is valid since I don't think publishing knows about any other domains besides cnx.org and legacy.cnx.org.

This issue needs to answer the questions How do I recover my content? now that it is in a broken state.

See also, Connexions/cnx-authoring#190, which was the original issue. It was later determined to be a webview issue.