Publish your docs

Your public docs brain is a draft. Publishing puts the whole draft live at once, pages and site settings together. Each publish is numbered, so you can always go back.

Admins, the owner, and anyone given publishing rights can publish. The assistant and routines never can.

Publish

1. Open the public docs brain under Knowledge. The Draft box at the side says whether the draft and the live site match.
2. Select Review & publish.
3. On the Publish tab, read the changes. Each file is marked New, Edited or Removed, with what changed beside it.
4. Select Publish these changes, or Review first publication the first time.
5. Check the summary, then select Publish.

ako confirms with "Published. Your changes are live as #" and the publication's number. Select View live site to see it.

If someone saves an edit while you're reviewing, ako stops you and shows the latest changes. Review them again before you publish.

Removing a page from the draft removes it from the site when you next publish. Anyone following an old link gets a "not found" page.

Restore an earlier version

1. On the publish page, select the History tab.
2. Find the publication you want and select Restore….
3. Select Restore to confirm.

The live site goes back to that publication, settings included. Your draft doesn't change, so anything unpublished in it stays there.

Take the site offline

1. On the History tab, find Take the site offline.
2. Select Unpublish site…, then Unpublish the site.

Every page comes off the site, and readers see a page saying there are no docs here. Your draft and history are kept, and you can publish again at any time.

Keep it out of search engines

Before your docs are ready to be found, turn off Let search engines index this site on the Settings tab. People with the link can still visit. This takes effect straight away, without publishing.