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Preview a Module in Trailmaker Content

Preview a module and units that you’re working on in your local Trailmaker Content workspace, and share the preview with collaborators. This preview provides an opportunity for content creators and collaborators to review formatted content before it’s added to a release. The preview is read-only, limited to one module, and isn’t available for a trail.

Required Editions

Available in: Enterprise, Performance, and Unlimited Editions
User Roles and Permissions
Enablement Site User Roles  
This topic supports these enablement site roles: Content Creators
Required System Permissions  
To launch a preview from Trailmaker Content: Create Content

You can preview content from Trailmaker Content and Trailmaker Release. What's the difference?

Preview Context What's Available Who Can Access It
Trailmaker Content Preview a module that’s in your local workspace. The preview is limited to the current module and its units, and shows only the source language, not any localized content that’s included in the module’s backpack. This preview isn’t available for a trail.
  • Only a user with the Create Content permission can launch the preview and share the URL.
  • Anyone who receives the URL can view the preview—no extra permissions required.
Trailmaker Release

Preview a full release that’s created for a particular content collection. This preview shows:

  • All the content that’s currently published in the content collection where the release is created
  • New or changed content, including trails, being processed as part of the release
  • Content that’s been localized for other supported languages.
 Only users with the Preview Release permission can access the full release preview URL.

For information about the full release preview, see Preview a Release in Trailmaker Release.

To launch and share a preview in Trailmaker Content:

  1. In the Trailmaker Content workspace, click the module title, or select Edit from the module’s Actions menu.
  2. On the module or unit page, click Preview.
    Module page in Trailmaker Content, showing the Preview button
  3. To share the preview with collaborators, click Share Preview in the preview banner.
    Module preview from Trailmaker Content, showing the Share Preview option
  4. In the Share preview window, enable sharing.
    The Share Preview window, showing the options to toggle sharing and copy the preview link.
    1. Toggle Link Sharing on (1). Sharing is disabled by default.
    2. To copy the preview link, click Copy (2).
    3. Click Done.
  5. Paste the preview link in an email, Slack message, or other direct message to collaborators.
Note
Note The person that you share the preview link with doesn’t require any specific Salesforce or enablement site permissions. When they follow your preview link, they don’t log in to view the content. Although your enablement site is private and requires users to authenticate, the preview link is public. Anyone can potentially access the module and any of its units. Use caution when you share the preview link with others.

The content preview is read-only. You can view quizzes and see the correct answers, but you can’t complete the quiz like you can in the full release preview.

The preview is available only in English, and it doesn’t support selecting other languages.

The preview link expires after 30 days of inactivity, which is defined as:

  • No one has visited the preview link for 30 days after it was created.
  • The person who shared the preview hasn’t modified the module or its units in Trailmaker Content for 30 days after the preview was created.

To disable sharing so that the preview is visible only to you, toggle Link Sharing off. You can always re-enable sharing later. If a collaborator tries to visit a preview link that’s been disabled, they receive an error.

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