Publishing, history & rollback
Drafts are private until you publish
Section titled “Drafts are private until you publish”Everything you change in Studio is saved to a draft — on your device instantly, and to the cloud within seconds. Your live site doesn’t change until you press Publish. Collaborators and Claude edit the same draft, and you see their changes live.
Publish
Section titled “Publish”Press Publish in the top bar. The dialog summarizes what changed since the live version — “2 pages edited, 3 images added, changed accent color” — and publishes with one click. A progress pill shows Publishing…, then Live with a link, usually within about a minute.
If there’s nothing new, it says Everything is already live.
Schedule a publish
Section titled “Schedule a publish”Switch the dialog to Schedule, pick a date and time (in your time zone), and OpenSpace publishes then. Pending schedules are listed in the same dialog, where you can cancel them.
If publishing fails
Section titled “If publishing fails”The pill says Couldn’t publish and explains why in plain language. Common problems — such as a page pointing at a deleted image — come with a Fix it for me button that repairs the change and tries again. As a last resort you can roll back.
Discard changes
Section titled “Discard changes”Discard changes… (designers and owners) throws away the draft and returns to what’s live. It’s an ordinary edit, so you can still undo it straight afterwards.
History
Section titled “History”Open History and versions from the clock button in the top bar. It has two lists:
- Published versions — every publish, newest first, with its summary, date and author. Live now, Rollback and Fixed automatically badges show what happened. Preview opens any version in a new tab.
- Snapshots — named save points of the draft. Save one yourself before a big change (“Before the redesign”). OpenSpace saves one automatically before every AI session and before every rollback. Designers and owners can Restore a snapshot.
Roll back
Section titled “Roll back”Choose a published version and press Roll back (designers and owners). Your live site returns to that version in about a minute. Nothing is lost: rollback adds a new version on top of the history rather than erasing anything, and any unpublished changes are kept in a snapshot first.
Under the hood
Section titled “Under the hood”For the curious (Settings → Advanced shows these details): your draft is kept on a draft branch (os/draft) of your site’s repository; publishing makes one tidy commit on main with the change summary as its message, and a GitHub Actions workflow builds and deploys the site. Snapshots are lightweight tags (os/snap/…). Rollback is a new commit with the old version’s files — history is never rewritten.