Preview and Publish
Last Updated: 14/09/2026
The centre of the editor is the catalogue page itself. What you save is a draft; what you publish is what visitors see.
The Preview
The preview shows the real catalogue page, in the width you selected with the desktop/mobile switch in the header.
It works in one of two ways, and you can tell them apart by looking:
- Live — the preview follows your changes as you make them. This is the normal case.
- Published only — the preview shows the catalogue as it is published today, and your changes appear in it only after you publish. Some catalogue pages do not yet support live updating; when that happens, the preview simply does not move while you edit.
Tips:
- The mobile preview reproduces a phone's width, and that is what drives the page's own responsive behaviour: what you see is what a phone gets.
- The preview is a real page, not a picture: use it to check that images are framed well and texts do not wrap badly.
Saving
Save draft stores your work without touching the public page. The draft is created automatically the first time you save — you do not have to create one.
The header tells you where you stand:
| Indicator | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Unsaved changes | You have edited something that is not yet in the draft. |
| Unpublished changes | The draft is saved but differs from the published page. |
Publishing
Publish sends the page design live. It publishes only the Design Catalogue section: the catalogue's name, licence and permissions are not touched, and neither are its products.
On a draft catalogue — one that has never been published — there is no Publish here. You save the design in the draft, and the whole catalogue goes live with Publish Draft from the My Catalogues menu, design included.
Leaving the Editor
If you leave with unsaved changes, the editor asks before letting you go, and gives you three ways out:
- Save and leave — the changes go into the draft.
- Leave without saving — the changes are discarded.
- Stay — nothing happens; you go back to editing.
Tips:
- Save the draft before a long break: the browser closing is not one of the three options.
- Publishing does not delete the draft workflow — you can keep editing after publishing, and publish again.