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- [Foundations](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/lernpfade/foundations)

- [Preview and publishing](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/lektionen/foundations-preview-and-publish)

Preview, publishing, deployment status

# Preview and publishing

7 min

In Studio, changes remain a draft until a person publishes. This lesson shows how pages and drafts from content collections are checked in the preview, how publishing works and why publishing is a deliberate step, even when agents have worked on the page.

## Key takeaways

- Changes stay a draft until publishing.
- The preview shows drafts in their real layout.
- Publishing is always done by a person.

## Read more

- [Preview and publish changes in Studio](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/preview-and-publish-changes-in-studio)5 min

  Studio saves changes as a draft and shows them instantly in the live preview. Publish in the top bar takes the saved state to the storefront through a deployment of the environment.
- [Check drafts in the preview before publishing](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/check-drafts-in-the-preview)5 min

  With the project's content preview token, the real storefront shows unpublished content instead of published content. The token is used by the open preview link in project settings, the Studio command Show preview content or the URL parameter preview\_token.

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