Overview

Scheduled publishing enables you to publish the latest changes to your store at a specified date and time. Now you can make your changes for an upcoming product launch, for example, create and preview your build, and then schedule the launch to go live without needing to be online at the specified time to click the publish button.

Publishing changes

Shogun Frontend works differently from other website builders as it functions more like an app builder and outputs a super fast Progressive Web Application (PWA). All changes made to the site need to be compiled into a build and then published all at once. There is no way to publish individual pages or changes.

Once you have made your desired changes, such as updating existing pages, creating new pages, adding content, or updating store settings, take the following steps to schedule a publish:

1. Create a build
2. Preview your build
3. Schedule your publish
4. Successfully publish your store

Create a build

Steps:

1. From the Global Top Navigation bar, click on Build and Publish Changes.
2. Click on Create Build.
3. Once complete, you will receive a toast notification that your build is complete, and the options in the site manager screen will change from Create Build to Preview and Publish.

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You'll need to have at least one page in the Ready to Publish state in order to build and publish your store. Not doing so may cause an error: "Your store could not be built".

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A build contains all changes made to your storefront up to a point in time when you click the Create Build button. A build can take up to 15 minutes, depending on the size of your store.

Preview your build

Steps:

1. From the site manager screen, click on Preview.
2. Your new build with your changes will be available on a preview URL.
3. Preview and test your changes, and once satisfied that everything is working as expected, move on to schedule your publish.

Schedule your publish

Steps:

1. From the site manager screen, click on the arrow dropdown on the Publish button and select Publish later.
2. Enter a name for your scheduled publish to identify it later if you wish to change the scheduled publish time.
3. Provide some free text notes on what this publish includes.
4. Type in the date and time for your changes to be published. The timezone displayed will be in your local time.
5. Click Publish Later.

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Note that the "Create Build" button is disabled once a build has been scheduled. In order to create a new build, the scheduled publish will need to be canceled.

Edit a scheduled publish

Steps:

1. Go to the site manager screen to view an existing scheduled publish.
2. Click the arrow dropdown on the Edit Schedule button and select Edit publish time.
3. Update the date and time for your scheduled publish.
4. Click Publish Later to save.

Cancel a scheduled publish

Steps:

1. Go to the site manager screen to view an existing scheduled publish.
2. Click the arrow dropdown on the Edit Schedule button and select Cancel scheduled publish.
3. Click Unschedule to confirm.

Notes

• Once a build has been scheduled you are not able to add any changes to that build. In order to include changes in a scheduled build, you would need to cancel the scheduled publish, make your changes, create a new build, preview your changes and reschedule the publish
• You will also not be able to make any changes to your current live site. If you need to release a change to your live site without any of the scheduled changes, you would need to undo your scheduled changes (e.g. move new product pages for a future launch to draft), make the change to your store, create and publish the build then redo the changes for the scheduled publish (e.g. move the new product pages for a future launch back to ready to publish), create a new build and schedule that build for the date and time of your product launch.