Basics of saving and undoing

While you are modifying a Web page, Experience Manager saves your work automatically for yourself only. When you have finished modifying the page, make your changes available to all visitors of the staging Web site.

Explicitly saving your changes as a draft

Whenever you change focus to another item on the Web page, Experience Manager automatically saves the changes you have made. In most cases, this autosave feature is enough.

But in certain cases, you may want to be extra sure that your changes are not lost, and you want to save explicitly, without making the changes available to anyone else. Taking a lunch break or going into a meeting are good examples of when to explicitly save your draft.

You can explicitly save your changes without making them available to others in a number of ways:

  • You can click Exit in the Info Bar at top right, and select Continue editing later in the dialog that opens.
  • You can close the browser or navigate away from the page. In this case, a prompt tells you that your modifications have been saved automatically.

Putting your changes on the staging Web site

When you have finished making changes to the Web page, you can make them available on the staging Web site by clicking Finish Editing in the Home tab. (You may be prompted to assign one or more of the items you modified to a Bundle at this point.) Finishing editing makes your changes available to everybody who visits the Web page on the staging Web site. Other users can now modify the page again.

Undoing your changes

If you want to undo all changes to the Web page since you last clicked Finish Editing, you can do so by clicking Cancel Editing in the Home tab.

You can also undo some, but not all changes to the Web page.