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Preview

See any page of your site the way its visitors will, from the hub, and share review links for each site.

Needs Sites preview

Part of Sites preview.

A preview renders a page with the site's theme, blocks, menus, settings and URL aliases, at an address on the hub: /preview/acme is the front page of the site with the ID acme, /preview/acme/about its page /about.

Before you start

  • You are a member of the site or hold a role on it.
  • A disabled site needs Access disabled sites or Administer sites in a platform role.

Open a preview

  • Open content on the hub: it opens in the preview of its canonical site.
  • In the content overview, the Sites column links each site's name to the content's preview there.
  • Enter /preview/ followed by the site's ID, which the Site panel of the dashboard shows.
  • The hub's front page opens the preview of one of your sites.

While you preview

  • The top bar shows Preview: and the site's name, with an eye. Where the page belongs to other sites you may preview, it is a list: choose a site to see the same page there.
  • Open live site in the sidebar opens the page on the site's own address, in a new tab.
  • Links to editing and administration lead back to the hub. Links within the site stay in the preview.

A content page previewed on Acme: the top bar shows Preview: Acme as a list of sites, the sidebar shows Open live site.

A content page in preview; the list in the top bar switches to the other sites of the page.

Needs Sites Preview Link

Part of Sites Preview Link.

A preview link shows the latest version of content to anyone who has the link, without an account, until it expires.

Before you start

  • Generate preview links.
  • A platform administrator has enabled preview links for the content type.

Steps

  1. On the content, click the Preview Link tab.
  2. Under Preview links for the sites you manage:, copy the link of the site under review. Each link carries that site's address.

Expiry: shows how long the links still work. Reset lifetime starts that time again. Save and regenerate preview link replaces the links of every site at once; the old ones stop working.

Content on none of the sites you manage gets no link.