Creating a draft
The first state of an asset is Draft. You can create multiple drafts for an asset before publication, compare the changes between two drafts, republish an asset based on a previous draft, and merge a later draft into an earlier one.
To create an initial draft:
- In the Quick Start widget, click the content type for which you want to create a draft. The content edit form appears.
- In the content edit form, start authoring the asset.
- In the editorial toolbar, click save.
After you save an initial draft, the content edit page starts tracking information about the asset’s drafts.
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![Article draft example.png](https://brightspot.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4ec5d29/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3031x702+0+0/resize/800x185!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrightspot-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fbsp%2F14%2Fd4%2Fce3a6a1e4a95950d6e5e75c8f06f%2Farticle-draft-example.png)
Referring to the previous illustration—
- The Revisions widget appears in the content edit page listing the initial and subsequent drafts.
- The color of the border under the editorial toolbar indicates the asset’s state.
- Yellow — draft/revision
- Green — published
- Red — archived
- The initial draft remains in the content edit form.
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