Page Activation

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Unroole Site Builder Admin Panel - Page Activation List.png

Displaying different versions of pages and there current activation and display status.

Along with scheduling, all pages in unroole must be activated before they are visible to the end user. An active version is one that will be displayed to a visitor of the page when the scheduled date/time of that version pass. Page activation is useful in a few different scenarios:

  • Preventing "live" edits when creating a new page or page version
  • Quickly reverting to the previous version in cases of error
  • Making the current version appear as non-existent to the end user for one-off promotions.
  • Disabling the latest version of a page without entirely removing it for later use


All newly created pages and page versions start off as inactive to prevent visitors from seeing half-completed layouts. Every page version has 2 different activation concepts:

The screenshot to the right depicts page versions in a variety of different states. In the status column a disable sign indicates the current version is not active while the (x) denotes the version will be displayed as non-existant to end user. In the far right column a cross or checkmark can be used to change the existence status of the version. The following table describes, starting from the top, the state of all versions in the screenshot:

Active/Inactive Existence Scheduled Effect
inactive future Even when the future date passes this version of the page will not go live.
inactive removed past If this page was active it would act as a 404 to the end user but instead it is skipped due to its inactive status.
active removed past This is the currently live version of the page which will return a 404 to the end user due to its existence status.
active past The previous live version of the page.
active past Another previously live version of the page.


Status

Unroole Site Builder Admin Panel - Page Activation Status.png

Highlight of the page activation status option on the page properties panel.

The activation status controls whether this page version will be considered for activation when the 'Goes Live On' date/time has passed for a specific page. This allows an admin to set a 'Go Live On' date in the past yet still make changes to the version of this page without it going live. Once the page is ready for the end-user they simply need to change its activation status to active and the page can be visible to the end user.

To change the page version active status:

  1. Navigate to a pages properties panel.
  2. Select the version of the page you wish to update from the versions tab
  3. Change the status from 'inactive' to 'active'
  4. Click 'Submit' to save the change.

Existence

Unroole Site Builder Admin Panel - Page Deletion Status.png

Highlight of the page version existence status and buttons on version tab.

The second activation control is the existence status. This status controls whether a page version appears to the end user as a normal page (HTTP 200) or as a non existent page (HTTP 404). Used in combination with Website Channel error settings this can be very useful for temporarily removing old pages or setting up short promotions that must be removed after a certain date/time.

To change the page version existence status:

  1. Navigate to a pages properties panel.
  2. Select the version tab
  3. Click the 'Delete' button to change the existence status to 'deleted' or 'Activate' button to re-activate a non existent page version.

Note that the existence status of a page version differs from deleting a page entirely. Pages that are removed from the page index panel are permanently destroyed.