Preview, Publishing, and Live Updates
Understand Preview, Draft, and Live catalogue publishing states, and how each affects share links and live creatives.
Publishing controls how and when catalogue changes become visible across all connected projects. Every catalogue has three distinct publishing states — Preview, Draft, and Live — each designed for a specific stage of review, testing, or public release.
This structure allows you to safely make updates, test them internally, and push them to production without disrupting live creatives.
State
Purpose
Where Changes Appear
Preview
Local, immediate reflection of edits
Inside the PLAY editor and preview mode only
Draft
For internal or client testing
Updates only the share links that already exist
Live
Public, production-ready data
Updates all exported and published creatives, even if they are already running/live
Each state represents a distinct version of the catalogue. Publishing to a higher state always overrides the previous version for all connected projects.
Preview
Any edit you make in the Catalogue Editor appears instantly in the Preview Mode of a linked project.
This allows you to test and validate changes from within the PLAY editor as you are building.
Preview changes are local only, they don’t affect any external links or live creatives.
Draft
Once changes are ready for review, click Publish Draft in the Catalogue Editor toolbar.
Drafts update all internal and client-facing Share Links for connected projects.
This is ideal for collaborative QA and approval rounds, enabling you to share updates to the catalogue without effecting any live projects.
Live
When ready for public release, click Publish Live in the Catalogue Editor toolbar.
All projects linked to that catalogue will automatically begin using the new data the next time they load.
There’s no need to rebuild or re-export any projects, the update happens dynamically.
Live publishing replaces the previous production version.
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