PARTIAL PUBLISH

Salesforce, Experience Cloud

OBJECTIVE
This feature allows users to publish individual pages, themes or settings for their experience from multiple entry points on Experience Builder. It allows customers to selectively publish the parts of the site that are ready to be viewed by end consumers.

ROLE
Lead Designer

TEAM
UX, Product Manager, Engineering, Research

 
 
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01

CHALLENGE

The existing publish function on Experience Builder was an all or nothing action. Once the user pressed published, the entire site was available to the public. While this behavior may work for lightweight websites, a corporate site requires more granular publish functionality. A corporate site typically consists of hundreds if not thousands of pages and is built and maintained by a global team of people. Each person on the team can be working on a different part of the site simultaneously. Not all pages of the site will be ready at the same time and the ability to publish it without publishing the pages still in draft is needed.

 

EXISTING PUBLISH FLOW

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1. Entire site contents published. All or nothing action.

 
 

02

APPROACH

The existing publish function on Experience Builder was an all or nothing action. Once the user pressed published, the entire site was available to the public. While this behavior may work for lightweight websites, a corporate site requires more granular publish functionality. A corporate site typically consists of hundreds if not thousands of pages and is built and maintained by a global team of people. Each person on the team can be working on a different part of the site simultaneously. Not all pages of the site will be ready at the same time and the ability to publish it without publishing the pages still in draft is needed.

 

PROPOSED FLOW

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Description of proposed flow here.

 

EXPLORATIONS

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Collection of publish modal iterations and description here.

 
 

03

SOLUTION

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1. Select item(s) to publish
2. URL segment highlighted
3. Relevant information for items about to be published
4. Multi-step flow indicator
5. Bulk select all items

 

EXAMPLE FLOW

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1. Collage of modal variations and approaches - tabs, accordion etc…

 
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1. Description

 
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5. Publish

 
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6. Caption placeholder

 

04

IMPACT

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.