Allow content creators to preview exactly how content will appear on the site after it's saved

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Created on 6 September 2014, over 10 years ago

Updated 28 March 2025, 12 days ago

Problem/Motivation

#1510544: Allow to preview content in an actual live environment → greatly improved Drupal's content preview ability.

However, as pointed out in #1510544-131: Allow to preview content in an actual live environment → and other comments, it's still not a completely accurate preview. Because the previewed content isn't actually saved anywhere, when you go to the new "full page" preview in Drupal 8, you won't see new menu items that were created for the content, it won't appear in views that it's supposed to appear in after it's saved, etc.

Proposed resolution

Change the "preview" functionality so that it actually works on saved drafts only (whether those are intentionally saved by the content creator via a "Save draft and preview" button or something more complicated involving autosave is TBD).

Use the forward-draft revision system so that a draft can still be saved in this instance when someone is editing already published content.

Modify Views and other systems to be able to treat these saved drafts as the actual published content, only in the case of a content creator who is viewing the site in "preview" mode.

Remaining tasks

All of them :)

User interface changes

No gigantic ones, but a few small ones likely as mentioned above.

API changes

Probably....

✨ Feature request

Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

entity system

Created by

🇺🇸United States David_Rothstein

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Comment 12 days ago →
🇺🇸United States smustgrave
Thank you for sharing your idea for improving Drupal.

We are working to decide if this proposal meets the Criteria for evaluating proposed changes. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or there is no community support. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

Thanks!
Comment 12 days ago →
🇬🇧United Kingdom catch
Workspaces in core actually provides this functionality now wholesale.

The remaining bits are 📌 Allow for / implement simplified content workflow with workspaces Active and 📌 Rewrite the node preview functionality on top of workspaces Postponed: needs info , so we can safely close this one as outdated.

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