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Previewing a Published Content Item
The preview functionality allows you to see exactly how a published content item appears on the XperienCentral frontend. To preview a published content item, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the content item.
- While viewing the content item, expand the Sidebar containing the Properties widget.
- In the Properties widget, click the Preview button:
The content item will open in a new browser tab. For example:
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a Planned Content Item
To preview an unpublished The preview functionality allows you to see exactly how a planned content item will appear on the XperienCentral frontend. To preview a planned content item, follow these the steps :below.
- Navigate to the content item.
- While viewing the content item, expand the Sidebar containing the Properties widget.
In the Properties widget, click the Generate button:
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A URLsimilar to the following is copied to the Clipboard
. Distribute this link to all those to which you want to grant a preview. The URL resembles the following:
Notice that the URL is the friendly URL of the content item with a special previewtokenhttp://gxsoftware.com/products/contact.htm?previewtoken=9c9a5af0
http://gxsoftware.com/products/contact.htm?previewtoken=9c9a5af0
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and the "Generate" button is replaced by the message "Copied to Clipboard". Distribute this link to everyone you want to grant the right to the preview. This preview URL is temporary and expires after the amount of time defined by your application manager — the default expiration time is 24 hours.Info Each time you navigate to a content item, the Generate button is again available. If you generate multiple preview URLs, each is unique and all will remain valid for their timeout periods.
When someone pastes the generated URL in a browser, they will see a preview of the unpublished content item. For example: