Nothing you do in Studio reaches shoppers until you click Publish. That means you can try ideas freely, save them as a draft, and take them live only when you're happy.
Availability
Plan: Growth Agents plan · Platform: SHOPLINE
Where your changes live
Stage | Who sees it | How it gets there |
Working changes | Only you, in this browser tab | Any edit you make, including changes the LimeSpot Assistant makes for you |
Saved draft | You and other admins in Studio, from any browser. Not shoppers. | Save |
Live | Your shoppers | Publish |
Working changes survive a page reload and page switches in the same tab. They're lost if you exit Studio or close the tab without saving.
Save your draft
Click Save in the top bar, or press ⌘+S (Mac) or Ctrl+S (Windows).
You see Settings saved.
Save is only active when you have unsaved changes. When a drawer or the Settings panel is open, the top bar is dimmed; use the Save button inside the drawer or panel instead. It saves to the same draft.
Publish to your live store
Click Publish in the top bar.
In Publish Changes, read "Publish all pending changes? This will make them live on your store." and click Publish.
You see Changes published successfully.
You don't need to save first. Publish saves your working changes, then takes them live. If you see "Nothing to publish — your draft matches what is live.", your store is already up to date.
Before you publish
Publishing makes your changes visible to shoppers. Check your pages in Studio first, including Mobile View.
Note
If you run A/B tests, Studio edits one experience at a time. Save and Publish only affect the experience shown in the top bar. Other experiences aren't touched.
Check your live status
The light next to Publish shows your store's state. Hover over it to read the status:
Light | Tooltip |
Green | "Live — your store is published and in sync" |
Amber | "Off — no published customizations on your storefront yet" |
Amber | "Off — you have unpublished changes; publish to take them live" |
Grey | "Publish state unavailable — your configuration could not be loaded. Reload Studio to try again." |
The light reflects what's saved on LimeSpot's servers. If you have unsaved edits in your tab, Publish stays active even when the light is green.
Discard changes
Use this to throw away everything you haven't published and go back to what's live.
Click the arrow next to Publish (Publish options).
Choose Discard Changes.
Click Discard changes to confirm.
This removes your working changes and your saved draft. It can't be undone.
Unpublish
Use this to remove your LimeSpot customizations from your live store while keeping your draft.
Click the arrow next to Publish.
Choose Unpublish.
Click Unpublish to confirm. You see "Unpublished — storefront customizations removed".
To bring everything back, click Publish again.
Exiting with unsaved changes
If you click Exit Studio with unsaved changes, Studio asks you to confirm. Click Exit only if you're ready to lose them. Your saved draft is kept.
Troubleshooting
You see | Why | What to do |
"Save failed: …" or "Publish failed: …" with "No LimeSpot.Context.Experiences found" | Your store's settings didn't load when Studio opened | Reload Studio. Retrying won't help. |
"Cannot write … — no matching experience in the loaded integration config. Reload Studio and try again." | Studio is out of sync with your experiences | Reload Studio. |
"The Studio settings write did not complete in time. Check your connection and try again." | The save took longer than 60 seconds | Check your connection and try again. |
"No working changes to discard." | Your draft already matches what's live | Nothing to do. |
"Nothing to unpublish — the storefront has no live customizations." | Nothing is live yet | Nothing to do. |
"Failed to save image campaign …" | A Smart Image campaign couldn't be saved | Fix the issue in that campaign, then save again. |