Snapshots

Content authors and editors need to constantly balance creating new content with updating existing content, often across locales. While one version of a page is live for your readers, you might be working on an update that must go out at a certain time, such as the start of a new promotion. All of these changes, including gathering feedback, approval, and reviews, must be handled behind the scenes before any updates go out. Snapshots help you manage coordinating such updates to your content.

Creating Snapshots

1. Copy the URL(s) of the pages for which you wish to make a snapshot and determine the path of the organization and site you wish to create a snapshot for. In our example, we are currently working on this page https://main--da-harvey-dent--bohnertchris.aem.page/demo and wish to create a snapshot of it, so we know that the path is /bohnertchris/da-harvey-dent.

2. Under Apps, select Snapshots.

3. In the Snapshots window, past the path you copied and click Get Snapshots to retrieve a list of snapshots for that site. If you are just starting your project, there will not be any and you can click Add new in the Snapshots window.

   

4. In the form that opens, paste in the URL(s) of the pages you want to include in this snapshot. You can also provide:

   1. Enter snapshot name to give your snapshot a descriptive name. This is important as you manage multiple snapshots.

   2. Title to give your snapshot a descriptive title

   3. Description to provide a more lengthy description of the purpose of the snapshot.

   4. Password to protect the content of the snapshot from those who are not authorized to view it.

   5. Click Save to save the snapshot.

      

Managing Snapshots

Reviewing Snapshot Content