Working with draft Hub pages

Hub pages now have a proper draft state. You can create a page, work on it over several sessions, and publish it only when it's ready. Nothing is visible to your people until you press Publish.

You can also edit a page that's already live without your changes going out immediately - the published version stays exactly as it is until you publish again.

Before, every save to a Hub page went live straight away. The usual workaround was to publish into a hidden folder, finish the page there, then move it.

Now:

You'll land straight in the page editor with your draft loaded. In the Page Settings panel on the right, Status shows Draft.

Note: You can't select Create until both Title and Add to section are filled in.

Your draft is now invisible to everyone on web and mobile. Nobody sees it - not even other admins browsing the Hub as a normal user - until you publish it.

Add your content in the editor as usual: text, images, a featured image, attachments, links, and anything from the Insert menu.

Everything saves automatically. There's no Save button. Your changes are stored a few seconds after you stop typing, and again whenever you navigate away from the editor inside Blink Admin.

You can leave and come back as often as you like. Close the tab, sign out, come back next week - reopening the page from the Hub list puts you back into the same draft with all your work intact.

Use Preview Page at the top right to see how the draft will look to your people, including a mobile view. Preview shows your draft content, not the published version.

Your page goes live to the audience you selected. The Status in the Page Settings panel changes from Draft to Visible, and you stay in the editor so you can carry on working.

Settings are saved on publish, not before. While you're drafting, the settings panel is read-only and shows what will apply. Selecting Next makes it editable; selecting Cancel discards any setting changes you made in that step. Nothing in the settings panel takes effect until you press Publish.
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Audience is optional. If you publish with no audience set, the page is published but Unshared - it exists in your Hub admin view but no one can see it. Add an audience later and publish again to share it.

When you select Next in the Page Settings panel, you'll see a Language section.

Original page language is filled in for you. Blink reads the text you've written and works out what language it's in, and the field shows Auto-detected from the page content.
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Detection needs a reasonable amount of text to work from - on a page with only a title or a line or two, it may not be able to tell.
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To override it, select Change and pick a language from the list. You can type to search. Regional variants are listed separately, so English and English (US), or French and French (Canada), are different choices.

Getting this right matters because it's what Blink compares against when someone reads the page in a different language, and it's what the translation clash check uses.

Underneath, Translations lists every translation attached to the page, with its status and a > to open it. If nothing is attached yet, the list doesn't appear.
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If the original page language is the same as a translation you've attached, the field turns red and you'll see:

A translation in English already exists for this page, choose another language or remove the translation to publish.

You can't publish while this warning is showing - the Publish button won't do anything. It's there to stop a page having two competing versions of the same language, where Blink has no way to know which one a reader should get.

To clear it, either:

The warning clears as soon as the two no longer match, and Publish becomes available again.

Translations live in the Translation centre.

The page must have been published at least once. Attach translation doesn't appear in the Actions menu on a page that has never been published. Publish the page first, then attach translations to it. You can attach translations to a page that has unpublished draft edits sitting on it - you just can't do it on a brand new draft.

The Translation centre opens full screen, split in two:

The right-hand side becomes a full editor for that language, with its own title and body.

Select the globe icon (Translate page) at the top right of the translation pane. Blink translates the title and body from the default version and fills them in for you.

You can then edit the result like any other page - the usual formatting toolbar, Insert menu are all available.
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Select Publish in the translation pane. You'll see <Language> was added successfully, and the language appears as a chip next to Select language.

Each translation publishes on its own. Publishing German doesn't publish a French translation you're still working on.
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Reopen Actions → Attach translation and select the language chip. From there:

Close the Translation centre with the ✕ at the top right.

Open the page from the Hub list and start editing. You're editing a draft on top of the published version — your people continue to see the published version until you publish again.

Once your first change saves, an amber Unpublished changes label appears next to Edit Page at the top of the screen. That's your signal that the draft and the live page have drifted apart.

When you're ready, select Next → Publish to push the changes live.

If you've made edits to a live page and want to throw them away:

Your edits since the last publish are removed and the editor reloads the published version. You'll see a confirmation: Changes discarded — reverted to the last published version.

This can't be undone. The published page itself is never affected - discarding only removes the unpublished draft edits sitting on top of it.

For a page that has never been published, there's nothing to revert to - so Discard changes doesn't appear. To get rid of it, select Actions → Delete.

This removes the page entirely.

Only one person can edit a Hub page at a time. When you open a page in the editor, you hold the edit lock on it.

If someone else already has it open, you'll see a message telling you who is editing the page and that you can't make changes right now. Wait for them to finish, or ask them to close the page.

The lock releases when you:

The lock is held while the editor is open and in focus, and renews itself in the background, so you won't be interrupted mid-sentence. But if you switch away and leave it, the lock times out and someone else can pick the page up.

Tip: If a page seems stuck as locked by someone who isn't working on it, wait about five minutes for the lock to expire.

The Hub content list has a Status column showing where each page stands:

The Status column is blank for folders, micro-apps, forms and quick links - draft state applies to pages only.

The list shows the published state of each page. To see whether a live page has unpublished draft edits waiting, open it - the Unpublished changes label appears in the editor.