Saving & Syncing

Save or Publish? And all about “syncing”

The SD Mines website content exists in two environments.

1. Staging environment – where MC web designers and department publishers work to add or change the website, and

2. Production (or public) environment that visitors to our website see.

Syncing

Once every day (currently at 5pm), the staging server syncs to the production server – so anything that has been created or edited, and then published, shows up on the public SD Mines website.

Saving

As you work in your content areas, you do need to be aware of this. If you don’t want your work to show up on the live site, then save rather than publish your work. Save your work by using the Save icon (the disk icon at the top of the page) rather than clicking the Publish button. Saved work can be previewed by clicking the preview button. When you are satisfied with your edits, click the Publish button. At the next sync, your published work will appear on the website.

If you save your work, then leave the document without publishing you’ll see a dialog box that asks you if you want to leave the page or remain on the page. If you have saved, you can leave the page and your work will be saved. If you have published, you will not see that dialog box.

If you’ve begun to edit but made mistakes and don’t want to save any of your work, then leaving the page without saving lets you “escape” out of the page, but doing that will leave the content item checked out. That will prevent any other publisher from being able to edit it. So click the “Undo Checkout” icon (to the immediate right of the Publish button), which will check the item back in but not save any changes. A dialog box will let you confirm that you want to leave the page without saving your changes.

Scheduling

If you want to create a page now for future display, then you can Schedule it to appear at a future time and date. This will keep it from appearing on the website until you are ready for it to go live. More on scheduling discussed in Working with Metadata.