Unpublish, Trash or Delete buttons in the Frontend

Question

I want to create some of these buttons in the frontend List view. I added checkboxes to the table and used the Using_the_JToolBar_class_in_the_frontend tutorial to put Save and Cancel buttons. Also added the Unpublish button with

$this->bar->appendButton( 'Frontend', 'unpublish', 'Unpublish', 'articles.unpublish', false );

But can't make it work to unpublish articles.
I put it in the same form as the table, so the action url is the same too, in my case:

/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=8&Itemid=116

It just redirects to the page without messages (error level is maximum).

Can't find how the admin Unpublish button works.
So maybe someone worked with these buttons.

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It looks like this. The New Record button works, it uses this code:

$this->bar->appendButton( 'Standard', 'add', 'New Record', 'article.add', false );

Answer 1

There is no controller for articles in the frontend. That's why articles.unpublish won't work. The toolbar itself is very flexible, but the default buttons just trigger a specific method of a controller.

Examples:

article.add will trigger ContentArticleController->add()

articles.publish will trigger ContentArticlesController->publish()