[consulting] preview of a home page

[Sami Khan]

Hi Mariano,

It depends on your front page. If you have the node module providing the 
front page, then nodes which are not published and promoted to the front 
page are visible to the site administrator only. However, you could most 
likely build a view using the Views module which would allow you to 
preview the content for, for instance, the author of the node, and then 
use workflow to allow users to promote it to publish it. This would mean 
that the node initially would be set to unpublished, when it was 
submitted... which would allow the preview... then someone would have to 
publish it, or call the publish via a cron hook if no one changes it... 
It's not a simple thing to do, btw, but it can be done.

Regards,
Sami

Mariano Barcia wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Isn´t there a way in Drupal to preview the home page, without actually
> publishing the nodes in the home page?
>
> I have been googling for this possibility, and also searching within
> drupal.org, but no luck yet. In large sites with many editors, there must be
> a way to preview how the home page will look like and I can't find a single
> mention to this issue. Other CMSs like OpenCMS have the concept of
> Online/Offline environments, or "sandbox" but that´s more developers
> terminology I guess.
>
> Or does the site admin actually preview the home page (sees the unpublished
> nodes)?
>
> Thanks very much in advance,
> --mariano
>
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