Preview and public sites
Pages that have been edited, but not published, have their changes visible only on the preview site. Public versions remain unchanged until the page is published. An unpublished page is indicated by an orange block over the page icon.
Some users will have permission to edit a page but not publish it to the live site. In this case the page needs marking as finished so it can be checked and then published by someone with higher permissions. A file that has been ‘finished’ is indicated by a green block over the page icon.
To save changes to the preview site, click on the Save icon with the picture of a blue floppy disk.
To finish a page for later publication, click on the Save and Finish icon with the picture of a green floppy disk.
To save changes to the public site, click on the Save and Publish icon with the picture of a yellow floppy disk.
To view the changed page on the preview site you can right click on the page in the left hand menu and select Preview from the options that appear. This will open in a separate browser window and take you straight to the unpublished page.
You can also preview the whole site by using the Preview icon at the top left. This will open at the home page.
To publish a page, either right click on the page name in the left column as before and select Publish from the options that appear or if the page is open click the Save & Publish button on the toolbar. A new window will pop-up to confirm that you want to publish the page. If you have made changes to pages within that page and wish to publish them as well, you can tick the Publish sub-pages option. Click OK, after a few seconds, the left hand menu should update and the page icon should no longer have the orange bar across it.
When you wish to view the public/live site, you can use the Public button.
