The Interface Builder’s working copies are handy for making changes to website content indepen­dently of others. No matter how much you changed, you can publish all of it in one final work step. But what if you’ve accumulated a lot of changes and suddenly need to publish just some of them? Maybe, your company’s terms of service or the landing page you’ve just finished unexpectedly gained importance and need to be made known to your website visitors as soon as possible. However, you cannot publish the working copy containing this content because the rest is still work in progress.

In situations like these, the Interface Builder lets you move specific new or changed pages or images, etc., to a different working copy which can then be published spontaneously. Note, however, that changes can only be moved if the editor is permitted to edit in the working copy. This is not the case if, for instance, a workflow is active and the editor has requested a publish.

Now, as an example, assume that Paula has authored a special offer landing page she needs to publish immediately. So she first opens the changes list of her working copy to move this landing page to a different working copy:

In this case, all of the changed content in the working copy is new, but even if Paula had touched existing content, she could still move any of the changed parts to a different working copy.

So, Paula clicks “Move changes”, which lets her select the items to move:

Next to the “Sensational Special Offer” page, Paula selects “special-offer.png” because she remembers having added this image to the page. Afterwards, clicking “Select target working copy” lets her choose an existing or create a new working copy to incorporate the changes she needs to publish:

Paula decides to create a new working copy, “Landingpage”, so she types its title into the input field and clicks “Create”. The Interface Builder then moves the selected items to the new working copy and reloads the changes list of the current one. As you can see, the items Paula moved are no longer included.

Paula clicks “Done” to close the changes list, then she selects the “Landingpage” working copy and publishes it right away. Afterwards she continues her work in her “Marketing” working copy.