Preview and publish

Watch a draft preview, publish an immutable version, and roll back to an earlier one.

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Attendees never see your draft. They see the latest published version, an immutable snapshot you create with Publish. Before that, you can watch the draft as often as you like with a draft preview.

Preview the draft

In the webinar header, click Open session and choose Draft preview. A session of the current draft opens in a new tab, with you as the attendee. Ask questions, answer polls and check the timing.

Draft previews are free and aren't recorded in your sessions, leads or analytics.
Slides whose audio isn't rendered or is outdated are spoken live from the script, so you can preview before rendering everything.
A preview needs the basics in place: a presenter and a moderator (two different personas), at least one slide, a moderator welcome text (or an intro video), and complete poll and offer slides.

The same menu has Latest published, which opens a session of the live version, and Public lobby, which opens the lobby as attendees see it.

Publish

Click Publish in the webinar header. The Publish webinar dialog checks the draft and lists what it will do:

Describe slide images that have no Slide contents yet.
Generate missing scripts with the presenter persona.
Render audio for slides that have none or whose audio is outdated.
Render the moderator welcome if needed, then publish.

If something blocks publishing, such as a missing presenter or an offer without a link, the dialog lists it instead and Publish stays disabled. Fix it and click Check again.

Click Publish to run the steps. When it's done, the dialog says "Version N is live." and shows the lobby link with a copy button.

The Publish webinar dialog with four checks: all slides have contents, all slides have scripts, all slide audio is up to date, moderator welcome is up to date. — The publish checklist.

Versions

Each publish creates a new version: v1, v2 and so on. A version is immutable. It holds the slides, scripts, audio, settings, personas and knowledge bases as they were at that moment. The public lobby always uses the latest version, and new sessions start on it right away.

The header shows where you are:

Not published yet: there's no version, and Copy link is disabled.
Live · vN: the version attendees get.
Unpublished changes: the draft differs from the live version. The button then reads Publish changes.
Published vN: the draft matches the live version.

Edits to a persona or knowledge base reach attendees only after you publish the webinars that use them again.

Settings that apply without publishing

These settings are live and apply right away: the access code, the schedule and tracking.

Roll back

Click Rollback and pick a version from Published versions. Then choose:

Make current: publishes that version again as a new version. New sessions use it right away; your draft is not changed.
Restore draft: replaces your draft (webinar settings, slides and scripts) with that version. Personas and knowledge bases keep their current contents. Nothing is published.

Rolling back never deletes versions, so you can always go forward again.