Your work and the published version

Your project has two states, and the difference between them is the most important thing on this page:

State	What it is	Who sees it	When it changes
Your work	your site as it stands right now	you, your team, anyone with your share link	after every finished ticket
Published	what sits on your web address	everyone	only when you press the button

So a finished ticket is not automatically online. That is deliberate. You should be able to try something out without your visitors watching you do it. If a change is finished but still not visible on your site, this is almost always why.

The "Status" block in the sidebar

Inside the project, at the bottom of the bar on the left, sits everything that concerns this page. Three rows, always in the same order:

Row	What it shows
Arbeitsstand ansehen (View your work)	the way to your site as it stands right now
a dot and a sentence	what currently applies
one button	the one thing you can do here

The sentence in the middle reads Alles veröffentlicht (Everything published), 3 Änderungen warten (3 changes waiting), Wird veröffentlicht ... (Publishing ...) or, if something went wrong, that your web address still carries the previous version, unchanged.

Below it sits exactly one button, never two. In your project it says Veröffentlichen (Publish). If you are standing in a draft, it says In dein Projekt übernehmen (Merge into your project). Both times it does the same thing: it moves what you did here one step further out.

Your work

After every ticket that finishes, your work runs under a web address of its own. You reach it from the bar and from inside the ticket.

Who can open it:

• you and your team, through the normal sign-in,
• anyone you hand a share link to.

You create that link in the Projekt-Einstellungen (project settings), card Veröffentlichung (Publishing), with Link zum Teilen erstellen (Create share link). It lives there rather than in the bar because you rarely need it. It is meant for your boss, a colleague, a client, so for someone who has no account with us and should not have to create one. Three things come with it, and all three are built in:

• The link is long and random, so nobody can guess it.
• It expires after seven days.
• You can withdraw it at any time in the same place, and then it is dead immediately.

The page behind the link is also blocked for search engines. It does not show up on Google.

Closing the preview

If nobody should be looking in right now, you can close your work in progress. The way there is in the same place as the sharing link: Projekt-Einstellungen (Project settings), card Veröffentlichung (Publishing), button Vorschau ausschalten (Turn preview off).

What applies afterwards:

• Nobody gets to it any more, not through a sharing link and not your team either.
• Your work stays there in full. Nothing is stopped and nothing is deleted, only the way in is closed.
• With your next ticket it opens again by itself, so you can watch while it is being built. You can also turn it back on by hand in the same place.

This is meant as a pause, not as a lock. If you want to keep one particular person out for good, withdraw their link.

Publishing

The button is called Veröffentlichen and sits at the bottom of the bar on the left, in the Stand (Status) block. What it does: it takes your current work and puts it on your web address. That is the moment your site goes online and becomes visible to everyone, including someone who has no account with us.

• It costs no credits. Publishing needs no AI, it is the same handful of steps every time. A button that costs money does not get pressed.
• It usually takes under a minute. You can keep working while it runs.
• You do not need to write a ticket for it.

Two things it needs all the same, and your project always tells you which of the two is due right now.

First: something built. As long as AdenAI has built nothing in your project, there is nothing to publish, and the button Veröffentlichen is therefore not there yet. The next step then reads: Erstell ein Ticket (Create a ticket). Once AdenAI has built it, you can go on. At the beginning that is the normal case, not a fault.

Second: your site needs a domain. Publishing means your site goes online under your real address, and without a domain that address does not exist. The button then sits there greyed out, and one sentence below it says what is missing. How to connect a domain you already own, or pick a new one, is under Connecting your own domain.

If you have already entered your domain but it is not live yet, the same sentence tells you that too. If it is waiting for us to set it up, there is nothing for you to do.

When that happens is up to you, and only you. There is no schedule running in the background and no automatic rollout. Your changes become visible to everyone the moment you press the button.

Whatever you call it does not matter. Ship an update, roll it out, put it live, deploy it: here it is always this one button.

Until you have published for the first time, nobody on the outside sees anything. After that, the project tells you whether your work and your published site are the same, or how many finished changes are still waiting for their appearance.

If publishing goes wrong, nothing changes on your web address. The previous version stays exactly where it was, and it says so.

Rolling a publish back

You published something and you do not want it that way. You can undo it. Your web address then goes back to the version from before the last publish.

If you know this from other tools: this is the rollback to the previous version. It always goes exactly one step back. There is no archive to pick an arbitrary older version out of, and rolling back twice will not take you two steps either.

You find it in the Projekt-Einstellungen, card Veröffentlichung, as Auf den vorigen Stand zurück (Back to the previous version). It sits there from the moment you publish. There is no deadline on it. However long ago you published, the way back is the same one step.

Two things so you can rely on it:

• Your work is not touched. It stays there in full, it is simply no longer public.
• It is possible as soon as something else has been published before. On the very first publish there would be no target to go back to.

Rolling back costs nothing either.

Drafts: working on two things at once

The part for later. If you only build one site you will never need it, and then it will not get in your way either.

This thing has had several names already: until 2026-08-20 the two places were called "main state" and "area", then until 2026-08-28 "main version" and "second version". If you still read one of those words somewhere, the same thing is meant as what is called "your project" and "a draft" here.

What for. You want to rebuild something larger, say the home page. Halfway through, something else comes up that has to be done quickly. Without a draft both jobs sit on top of each other in one state. With a draft you carry on with the home page while nothing happens in your project.

A draft is a building site, not a copy. What you build there is neither lost nor cut off: you pull it back into your project with one press of a button, as soon as you like it.

The three stages, and why that is one stage more than you think

There are three states, not two. This is the one place where people trip up:

Where	Who sees it	How something moves on
A draft	only you and your team	button In dein Projekt übernehmen
Your project	only you, your team, anyone with your share link	button Veröffentlichen
Your published site	everyone	this is the last stage

So merging something out of a draft does not make it public yet. It then sits in your project, in your work, and waits there like every other finished change for you to press Veröffentlichen. Anyone who overlooks that wonders why nothing moves on their domain.

How to create one

On the left in the bar, right at the top, it says Wo du arbeitest (Where you are working). Below that the name of your project, below that every draft there is, and at the very bottom the plus:

My Company         7
+ Neuer Entwurf

One click on + Neuer Entwurf (New draft), one name: "Docs", "Home page", "Christmas campaign". The name is the whole thing you have to operate, there is nothing more to understand.

The list is always there, in the trial too, and that is deliberate. An option you do not know about does not help you. So you get to see it before you need it.

If the button is locked, the same page tells you in one sentence why, and brings along the one step that changes it:

• In the trial you work on one thing at a time. You still see what a draft would be good for, and next to it the way to the plans that run more in parallel.
• In a brand new project something has to be built first. Before that there would be nothing for the new draft to branch off from. From there you go straight to your first ticket.
• If you already have as many open as your plan allows, it says how many that is. Then you merge one of them into your project or delete it.

Where you end up. Every draft you create gets its own row in the same list:

My Company         7
● Docs             2
● Home page        0
+ Neuer Entwurf

The row you are standing on is the place everything to the right of it applies to: the tickets, the Stand block, the button. A green dot on a row means everything from it has already been merged. Below the list sits the way to delete the draft you are currently in. It only appears once you really are standing in a draft, because you cannot delete your project itself. Anyone who is only allowed to watch cannot create a draft and therefore does not see the plus.

After that:

• Every draft has its own preview. Your update only shows up there, in your project there is nothing to notice.
• A ticket belongs to exactly one place. If you create a ticket while standing in a draft, that is where it belongs.
• You can step back out at any time with a click on the name of your project, and then you see the site without your update. That is exactly what the draft is for: being able to compare.
• Your jobs do not sit on top of each other. What happens in a draft does not change your project, and the other way round. The tickets are still worked through one after another: AdenAI takes only one at a time per account.

Bringing it back

Once you are happy, press In dein Projekt übernehmen inside the draft. It is the same button in the same place where the project says Veröffentlichen, and it means the same thing: one step further out. Your work then sits in your project, and the tickets from the draft turn up there under Erledigt (Done).

Nothing is online yet. For that you go to the name of your project afterwards and press Veröffentlichen as usual. Only this second press makes the version visible to everyone.

If two places changed the same spot, AdenAI merges both. If it cannot get any further, a question unfolds above the board: which one should win? It is written in plain language, and you can look at both beforehand. Nothing has changed in your project at that point, and whichever one you do not pick stays in the draft.

Deleting works at any time, through the way below the list. If the draft still holds work that exists nowhere else, AdenAI asks first.

"The preview is not running right now"

On your screen that sentence reads Die Vorschau läuft gerade nicht (The preview is not running right now). If it sits on the left in the bar, the draft has been put to sleep. That happens when nobody has looked at it for hours, and it saves computing power that would otherwise run for nothing.

Nothing is lost. Your work is all there. Open the draft again and the preview starts by itself, which usually takes less than a minute. The same goes for Die Vorschau wird gerade gestartet (The preview is starting up).

What this has to do with your domain

Your domain is the address your published site runs under. Without it there is nothing to publish, because there would be no place for the site to go. That is why it is a requirement since 30 August 2026 and no longer just an improvement.

Nothing changes about your work in progress: it keeps running under our address, you and your team see it, and so does anyone holding your sharing link. Only the step outwards waits for your domain.

How to connect a domain you already own, or pick a new one, is under Connecting your own domain.