Edition of a Draft Site

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Draft Sites is a feature available from Appspace SharePoint Intranet 4.6.0 onwards

Entering a Draft Site’s settings page will now display a much cleaner UI, as some nice improvements have been introduced.
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The header is now full width, the back button has been normalized to be coherent with other areas of the product, a nice Draft label was added near the ‘Edit site’ literal and we now have 3 available actions:
  • Preview: takes the user to a page in which they can see how the Draft Site will look with the current content;
  • Save: saves the edited content;
  • Publish triggers the publishing process to make the site accessible for the entire organization;
Starting by the Preview button, the user will be redirected to a similar view as we do have in published Sites, but with a small banner indicating that the Site is still on draft.
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Clicking on the “Edit site” option in the banner will take the user back to the corresponding Site Settings;
There are two specificities to bear in mind when previewing a Draft Site:
  • The ‘Related Sites’ widget will show directly connected levels with other Draft Sites, but they will be hidden once the site is published to avoid polluting end-users.
  • Users now have the option to associate Draft Pages to a Draft Site through the Site Settings, which will be visible as such:

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To achieve this result we expanded the search results retrieved in the ‘Pages’ tab of the Site Settings to return Draft pages (identified accordingly) when we’re editing a Draft Site.

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If the site is then published, the connection with the Page will be hidden until the page itself is also published.
The Save behavior is now cleaner and triggers a pop-up message to give feedback to the user about successful/unsuccessful changes, substituting the current behavior of redirecting the user to the preview of the page.
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