Draft, review, published
The four states a piece of writing can be in, and why yours is probably a draft.
Everything you write is in exactly one of four states, shown as a coloured label at the top of the editor and in every list.
- Draft — you are still working. Nobody outside your team can see it. Everything starts here, always.
- Needs review — you have asked a colleague to look before it goes out. Still invisible to the public.
- Scheduled — finished, and waiting for a date and time you chose.
- Published — live. Anyone can see it.
Why yours is a draft
Because everything starts as one. There is no way to write something and have it go live by accident — publishing is always a separate, deliberate press of a button.
That is why the Publishing panel says Save this page before publishing it when you first start typing. Save creates the draft; Publish makes it public. Two steps, on purpose.
Moving between them
Open anything and look at the Publishing panel on the right.
- Publish now — live immediately.
- Schedule for later — pick a date and time. See the scheduling lesson.
- Send for review — flags it for a colleague without publishing.
- Move to draft — takes something published back off the website. It is not deleted; it is just no longer public.