publishing a tridion component presentation without a page

Question

Can I publish component presentation without adding it to a page? The answer seems to be yes. I have a component that is not on any pages. I published just that component and the component presentation ended up at my destination, but where is the component picking up the template? Is it picking it up via the LinkedSchema tab in the template? I did link the schema used for the component to a template.

Thanks

Answer 1

You guessed right. A component is published as a dynamic component presentation (so without a page) if there are one or more component templates that are:

a. linked to the schema the component is based on

b. marked as 'publish as a dynamic component'