Publishing & previews

Save and preview drafts

Preview behavior

• Course preview links now open the first lesson path when a lesson exists, so you land directly inside course content.
• From course management cards, preview opens with editor preview mode so draft lesson changes are easier to verify before publishing.

Free preview lessons

Free Preview lets visitors sample selected lessons before they buy or receive full course access.

If no lesson is marked as a free preview lesson, Hiveality uses the first published lesson as the preview.

For paid courses, connect a Sell Access product so locked lessons can show Buy full course. You can also add a custom purchase URL fallback when a managed checkout is not connected.

Locked lessons stay inside the course player. Learners can use the course outline or the Previous and Next controls to move to other available lessons while the locked lesson explains what is needed to continue.

Publish a course

Before publishing, Hiveality checks the saved course structure so modules, lessons, lesson types, and lesson publish states stay aligned across Course Builder and approved assistant or API edits. If another approved workflow added or updated lessons after your draft was saved, those saved lessons are kept instead of being dropped when the draft goes live.

Publishing a full course also refreshes its learner pages and publishes lessons that were still marked as drafts by approved assistant or API workflows. Use single-lesson publish controls when only one lesson should be shown or hidden.

Lesson visibility follows the Active / Inactive state shown in the Lesson Editor. If you activate or deactivate a lesson and then publish the course, Hiveality keeps that visibility choice instead of restoring an older saved state.

If Hiveality cannot safely line up the draft with the latest saved course content, publishing pauses and asks you to reopen the builder before trying again.

Discard changes

Use Discard to revert draft changes back to the last published version.