Joomla! Documentation™

Preview Access

When you have written an Article it can be useful to preview it before publishing.

• Login to the website Frontend. You need to be logged in and have appropriate permissions to use the Preview feature.

From the Site interface:

• If you can edit the article in the Frontend, you can do so and use the Save & Close button to see the article.

From the Administrator interface:

• Login to the Backend and select Content → Articles → +.
• Set the Status to Unpublished or leave it Published and adjust the Start Publishing date.
• Make changes and Save the article.
• Select the Preview button in the Toolbar. A popup Preview window should appear.
• If you get a The requested page can't be found message, login to the Frontend and try again.
• To close the Preview window select the X button at the top right corner.

Group Permissions

To check who can use the Preview feature:

• In the Backend select Administrator → Users → Groups.
• Select an icon from the Permissions column for the Group of interest.
• Enter article in the search field to search for articles or part of the article title to search for a specific article.

It may come as a surprise that Author, Editor and Publisher are not allowed Administrator login! Also Authors can only Create and Edit Own articles.