When an unpublished image is inserted into a story and story is previewed, it assumes the user wants the image to be published. How about having preview cause any unpublished images in a story (featured media, inline) to be published.
Greg Lang
Hi Lynda, if you're reliant on Themes this may not be possible but if you are building your own front-end experience in-house I can connect you with someone on our team who could explain the details better than I could. You can reach me at amckie (at) globeandmail (dot) com
Alasdair McKie - how were you able to configure the template so that it renders unpublished images on preview? We would be very interested in that.
Hello all, thank you for the idea and the feedback. Apologies for the delayed response on this. Unpublished images within a story are automatically published when the story is published (in-line, featured media).
I believe that meets the needs of this Idea. Please let me know if you all agree.
Thanks,
Larry
Contrary view: Sometimes people will include images, preview them, and change their minds. Not all previewed images ultimately get used in the published article. So with this change you would be publishing more images and keeping them around, since they likely won't be expired depending on your orgs retention strategy. Possibly an edge case for some, but certainly happens to us.
One reason we may be more comfortable with waiting to publish the image until the story itself is published is that we configured the PB template that handles article preview for Composer to render images whether they're published or not. That saves us from having to publish images at the preview stage.