When making changes to your website, you may want to preview those changes to see how they might look before publishing them online. Sometimes this is referred to as having access to a Sandbox,
To preview changes before making them live on your web pages:
Login to VIA
In the left hand menu go to Website > Pages
Use the search bar at the top to search for the URL of the website page you want to edit
From the list view, right click the website page you want to edit. Right click the page and select Duplicate
This will create a duplicate version of the website page. It will be have the same URL but will be followed by -copy- and a 4 digit alpha numerical code
Find the your new duplicated website page from the list and select edit
At the top of the tab, click into the underlined section which is the URL of the page. This will allow you to edit the settings of the page. Scroll to the field labelled Hide from search engines and tick this box. This will prevent your page from being referenced by Google whilst you are previewing the changes. Click Save.
Find the duplicated page from the list again and select Edit. You can now make the relevant changes to the website page.
You can preview these changes at anytime by clicking the View button at the top of the page editing tab. Or, right click your copied page from the page list view and select View
When you are ready to publish your website page and put it live:
Go to the pages tab. Find the original page that you want to replace. Right click it and select Edit. A new tab will open. Click the URL at the top, then scroll to the Visible tab and untick the box.
Go to the pages tab and find your duplicate of this page that you want to put live. Right click it and select Edit. A new tab will open. Click the URL field at the top, then remove the -copy- and alpha numeric code from the URL. Ensure this URL is the same as the page you want to replace (you are making the URL of this page the same as the original page which is now hidden)
Scroll to the Hide from Search Engines field and ensure this is not ticked (otherwise the page will be hidDen from Google)
Click Save
You may want to find the original page which is now hidden. You can either delete this page if you no longer need it. However, we’d recommend you keep it just in case you need to revert and changes you’ve made. You can also edit this page, and change the page URL and add old or archive to the end of the URL. Although the page is hidden, this may make it easier to view the old page at a glance when reviewing the website page list in VIA
Article ID: 1821835275
Link: https://webdadi.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PKB/pages/1821835275