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The following applies to XperienCentral versions R29 and higher.

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You can easily preview how a content item appears on the website frontend. While in principle the XperienCentral Editor presents a WYSIWYG view of your content and you are pretty much seeing it as it really is while editing it, the preview function shows you the whole picture of the content item without any sign of the Workspace or other parts of the XperienCentral backend. The preview functionality of XperienCentral works for both published and planned versions of content items. Furthermore, you can make the preview of an unpublished content item temporarily available to a non-XperienCentral user, that is, someone who does not have permission to log in to the backend of your XperienCentral deployment.

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Expand title Application managers: read more... Previewing an unpublished content item makes use of a temporary security token. You can define how long this token is valid. See the setting previewtoken_expire_minutes under the website_settings section of the General tab of the Setup Tool.

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Previewing a Published Content Item

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• Is a long password.
• Contains spaces and words.
• Contains special characters. A special character is anything that is not a letter or a number.
• Does not resemble your username, first name, last name or email address.
• Does not resemble your previous password.
• Contains one or more numbers.

In addition to the enforced rules specified above, a strong password also adheres to the following:

• Does not contain any string of letters that spell your company name, your job description, the name of a pet, your nickname, or any other word that could be associated with you personally.
• No string of letters spells a word that can be found in the dictionary of your language.
• If you use numbers, they do not represent anything associated with you such as your birth date, age, house address, and so forth.

When you type your new password into the field, the "Password Strength" field will indicate the strength of your password using different colors. The following colors are used to indicate the password's strength:

• Red — The password is extremely weak (not accepted).
• Yellow — The password is moderately weak (not accepted).
• Blue — The password is good.
• Green — The password is strong.

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Specifies the language to use for the XperienCentral GUI. If you select a different GUI language, you must log out and log back in in order for the change to take effect.

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This setting is not synchronized with the language version of the website that you are viewing/editing. To select the language version of the website that you want to view/edit, use the Language Widget.

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:

1. Navigate to the content item.
2. While viewing the content item, expand the Sidebar containing the Properties widget.
3. In the Properties widget, click the Preview button:
   
   
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   The content item will open in a new browser tab. For example:
   
   
   
   
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Previewing a Planned Content Item

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 the steps below.

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After making any changes, click [Apply].

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Previewing an Unpublished Content Item

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1. Navigate to the content item.
2. While viewing the content item, expand the Sidebar containing the Properties widget.

3. In the Properties widget, click the Generate button:
   
   
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   A URL similar to the following is copied to the Clipboard:
   
   http://gxsoftware.com/products/contact.htm?previewtoken=9c9a5af0
   
   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.
   
   

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   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:
   
   
   
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