Transferring Changed Content

Transferring Changed Content

Scrivito's working copies are handy for making changes to website content independently of other users. No matter how much you've changed, you can publish all of it in one final work step. But what if you've accumulated a considerable amount 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, Scrivito lets you move the changes made to specific pages or other CMS objects to a different working copy which can then be published instantly.

As an example, assume that Paula has authored a special offer landing page she needs to publish immediately. So she 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 wants to publish:

Paula decides to create a new working copy, “Special offer LP”, so she types its title into the input field and clicks “Create.” Scrivito then moves the selected items to the new working copy and reloads the changes list of the current working copy. As you can see, the items that were moved have disappeared from the list:

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

Changes to CMS objects that have already been altered and published concurrently cannot be moved without first clarifying which changes to keep and which to dismiss.