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Publish an existing page as a new page

Contribute lets you update an existing page and then publish it as a new page without overwriting the original page. This feature is similar to the Save as feature in other applications.

For example, suppose you open the product page for men’s cargo pants and start updating the page with information about women’s cargo pants for your company website. Then you realize that you forgot to make a copy of the existing page before you made edits. As long as you don’t click Publish, the original page is unchanged. Use the Publish as New Page feature to publish the modified page as a new page on your website.

This is possible because when you click Edit Page for an existing page, Contribute creates a copy of the page (known as a draft) for you to edit. Saving changes to the draft does not alter the page on your website.

  1. Browse to an existing page, and then click the Edit Page button.

  2. Make changes to the draft.

  3. Select File > Actions > Publish as New Page.

    Note: Depending on the role the Contribute administrator assigned you, you might not be able to publish.

    Contribute warns you if have not linked the new page from an existing page. After you publish the new page, be sure to create a link to it (see Link to a draft or a recently published page on your website).

    The Publish as New Page dialog box appears.

  4. You can change the page title and filename for the draft, and then click the Choose Folder button beside the filename to save this draft in another location on your website.

    Note: Contribute automatically saves the file with the same name as the page title.

    For more information, see Completing the Publish As New Page dialog box options.

  5. To set a different expiry date, select the date in the Page Expires On option. (Optional.)

  6. Click Publish or Next.

    If your new page draft links to any other new pages, the Publish New Linked Pages dialog box appears.

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  7. If the Publish New Linked Pages dialog box appears, for each unpublished linked page, select the page name, file name, and folder location.

  8. To publish all linked pages with the same workflow as the page being published, select Publish All Dependent Pages Whose Workflow Is The Same As The Main Page.

    Note: For linked pages with a different workflow, the location on the site is finalized, but the pages are not published until their workflow is complete.

  9. To set a different expiry date than the one set by the administrator for the linked web page, select the date in the Page Expires On option. (Optional.)

  10. Click Publish.

    For more information, see Completing the Publish New Linked Pages dialog box options.

    Contribute publishes the draft to your website and then displays it in the Contribute browser.