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9: Change management
In this section of the course, you will learn how to use the change management features of IBM Web
Content Manager to manage updates to the website.
Time required
It should take approximately 4 hours and 10 minutes to complete these lessons.
Learning objectives
When you have completed this section of the course you should be able to:
v Work with draft items
v Create and use a workflow
v Create and use a project
Lab 9.1: Working with drafts
During this lab you will learn how to create and work with draft items to make small updates to your
website.
Time needed
It will take approximately 50 minutes to complete this lesson.
Objectives
During this lab you will learn how to:
v Create a draft of an item
v Edit and then publish the item
Lesson 9.1.1: Draft items
Sometimes you want to make a quick change to an item, preview it, but not publish it straight away. To
do this, you can create a draft of an item. Creating a draft of an item allows you to work on changes to
that item without changing the published version of the item. When the changes are completed, you can
choose to either publish the item or discard the changes by canceling the draft.
Creating a draft item
You can use any of the following methods to create a new draft item:
v Create a new item and click Save as draft. This will create a new draft item.
v Open a published item in edit mode and click Save as draft. This will create a draft copy of
the published item without removing the published item from the live site.
v Open a published item in read mode and click Create Draft. This will create a draft copy of
the published item without removing the published item from the live site.
v Open a published item and click Change to draft. This will change the state of the item from
"published" to "draft" and the item will no longer be visible on the live site. You cannot change
an item to draft if it is being referenced by any other items.
Saving a draft item
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