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Versions & scheduled publishing

Pages, layouts, and reusable components all keep versions. A version is a named snapshot of the saved document; exactly one version of each is published — the one your visitors get.

The versions dialog​

Open the version name in the Besigner's app bar to see the Versions dialog, with each version's created/updated times and a Published chip on the live one.

  • New version saves a named snapshot of the current saved document (prefilled "Copy of …" — rename it to something meaningful).
  • Open switches the Besigner to that version. Viewing an old version never publishes it.
  • Delete versions you no longer need — the published version can't be deleted, and the one you have open must be closed first.

Publish & roll back​

Publish on any row makes that version the live one — which is also how you roll back: publishing an older version moves the live pointer, destroys nothing, and is symmetrical, so rolling forward again is the same click.

A save is not a publish. Saving updates the version you have open; publishing is what changes the live site. Publishing a layout version reaches every page bound to that layout, so check its Used by card first — see Layouts. A reusable component version reaches every page that places it the same way.

A layout's versions​

A layout's page lists its versions in the Versions card, newest first, with when each was created and last updated; the live one carries a Current chip. Open takes a version into the Besigner, where you edit, publish or schedule it. A layout has no versions until you first open it in the Besigner.

Publishing a layout version changes every page bound to it at once, so check its Used by card before you do. Saving never does — a save is not a publish.

Scheduled publishing​

Schedule publishes a version automatically at a chosen future time; the row then shows a "Publishes …" chip you can clear to cancel. Pages and layouts can be scheduled; a reusable component cannot, so its Schedule is disabled — publish that version when it is ready.

If a scheduled publish comes due on a plan that no longer includes scheduling — after a downgrade, say — it is skipped and shown as skipped on the page's detail view, never silently dropped, so you can dismiss it or upgrade and reschedule.

Plan requirements​

On a plan without a feature its buttons stay on screen, disabled, with a note naming the plan that includes it and an Upgrade button to the plans on Billing:

  • Creating versions requires Pro or above — on a lower tier New version is disabled and the Versions dialog says "Included from Pro".
  • Scheduled publishing requires Pro or above — on a lower plan every Schedule button is disabled and says "Scheduled publishing is included from Pro."
  • A version is snapshotted from the saved document, so the editor asks you to save the canvas first rather than silently capturing (or losing) unsaved edits.