How to: Publish and Preview your Site

Publishing

Publishing takes all of the configuration and customizations you've made to your site and makes them public. All projects must be published once before being able to copy the event URL. Changes made post-publishing in the site editor are auto-saved and will not be updated on the attendee facing site until published again.

The platform will assist admins in calling out any unedited text to review before officially publishing. When publishing admins also have the option to edit/customize the event URL.

Activity Log

The Activity Log allows admins to view change and publishing activity for a specific project. The log will display the admin that made the changes and allows for restoring back to a previous published version. 

The log is accessible from the Notifications icon in the top right corner of the site editor:

Click "See All" to view the full log and publish bundles to restore from.

What Get’s Tracked

Project-level actions:

• Publishes (every time the project is published)
• Toggling registration on or off
• Creating an email

Session-level actions:

• Enabling or disabling chat
• Adding or deleting Engage content — this includes Questions, Polls,
• Quizzes, and Surveys (see note below on how these are labeled)
• Adding or deleting Extras content — this includes:
  • Products
  • Resources
  • Suggested
  • Speakers
• Using Test Broadcast
• Creating a custom module

Note: 

Users with the role of Admin, Developer, or Group Manager are the only users able to see the Restore button and roll the project back to a previous version.

Engage Items such as Polls, Quizzes, and Surveys are all displayed in the log under the label "engage item" rather than their specific type.

Previewing your Site

The Preview feature allows Admins and Site builders to share event sites with users outside of the Brandlive platform through a password protected and fully functional preview site. 

Preview is visually and functionally identical to your event site, however, it is completely separate and has a unique URL to ensure there is no confusion between Preview and the live site you will share with attendees. 

How-To Video 

Creating and Sharing the Preview Site 

To share your event site before making it available for attendees, open your event in the Sitebuilder and select the "Preview" button from the top navigation bar: 

A pop-up window will appear with two items: Preview URL and Passcode.

To share your event site, simply copy the URL and passcode to send to team members. Once a user clicks on the Preview site URL, they will be prompted to enter the passcode before accessing the site: 

Once they enter the passcode, they will be able to view and utilize the site.  Users must re-enter the passcode any time they refresh the site. 

Preview URLs are generated by the Sitebuilder and cannot be edited. 

Editing the Preview Site 

To make changes to your Preview site, simply edit your event in the Sitebuilder.  Then, open the Preview modal and select "Publish Preview":

This will publish the changes made in Sitebuilder to the Preview site only (If you wish to add the changes to your attendee-facing event site, you will need to use the main "Publish event" button).

Changing the Passcode

To change the passcode, simply open the Preview modal and select "Change passcode":

A new passcode will be generated for you to copy and share.  Once a new passcode is generated, all preview passcodes will not work and users will need the current passcode to access the Preview site.