Two write modes
Where confirmed changes go is decided by your administration. The chat tells you what applies at any time: at the top it says either “Write mode: draft” or “Write mode: live”, and it is repeated before every confirmation.
| Mode | What it means |
|---|---|
| Draft | Changes land in a workspace and stay invisible to visitors until you publish them. This is the default |
| Live | Every confirmed change is immediately visible on the website |
If there is no draft workspace yet, ChEddi creates a personal one automatically with the first confirmed change. The chat points that out beforehand as well.
Publishing or discarding changes
Drafts are collected per conversation. Through the actions menu you reach the changes of this conversation and see exactly the records this conversation has touched.
Per record or for all of them together, two buttons are available: Publish and Discard. Discarding removes the change from the draft and cannot be undone, so the chat asks back.
Where the draft does not apply
Reversibility comes from the draft, not from the chat. Two things follow from that:
- In live mode a confirmed change takes effect immediately, there is nothing to discard.
- Even in draft mode the tools for uploading media and generating images always write straight to live. Newly created files are therefore in the file list right away.
The second point is not a peculiarity of ChEddi but normal TYPO3 behaviour: workspaces version records, not the files themselves. An uploaded or generated file therefore exists in the file system immediately, regardless of the workspace. Only its link to a record is versioned, for instance the image on a content element.
In practice: if you discard a change, the link disappears, but the file stays in the file list and has to be removed there by hand if you want it gone.