Publishing a view

Publishing makes a view available at its own URL, to an audience you choose. It is a property of the view, not a separate kind of thing you build.

This is worth stating plainly because it used to work the other way round: you no longer publish something in order to look at it. Every view renders in the studio as soon as you open it. Publishing is the separate, optional act of letting other people see it.

Publishing a view

Publish appears on every view — on the view itself, and on the card for each map in Maps.

The publish card asks for two things:

URL. The address the view will live at, under your organization:

aplas.com/your-org/coverage_matrix

The slug is yours to choose and can be changed later.

Audience. Who can open it:

Until a view is published, the card says so: not published — only studio members can open this view. "Studio members" means the people in your organization who have access to the studio itself — Owner, Admin and Author. Viewers do not, which is precisely why publishing exists. See Users and roles for what each role can reach.

Publishing a Default view makes it a view of your own — the default library is a starting point, and acting on one of its entries materialises it.

What a viewer gets

A published view is read-only. Viewers can explore it — search it, move around it, open an asset to see its detail — but nothing they do writes back to your inventory. That is enforced on our side, not merely hidden in the interface.

The publication also pins its presentation. A published view keeps the style it was published with, so changing a style in the studio never moves a live URL underneath its audience. When you want the audience to see your new version, republish.

Publications

Publications in the studio nav is the governance list — what is live right now, at what URL, and who can see it. It is organization-wide, so it covers every workspace.

Each row names the publication, its URL, its audience, the view it comes from and its type, and its status:

PUBLICATION        URL                                  AUDIENCE      SOURCE                    STATUS
Coverage matrix    aplas.com/your-org/coverage_matrix   Org members   Coverage matrix (matrix)  Live

The URL is a live link, so you can check what your audience sees. The settings icon on each row reopens its publish card, to change the audience, change the address, or take it down.

Publish a view… starts from this end instead — pick a view and publish it without navigating to it first. If some of your default views have never been published, the page says so and offers to review them.

Choosing what to publish

A published view is the thing most of your organization will ever see of Aplas, so it is worth being deliberate:

• publish the view, not the whole inventory — a view scoped to one question is easier to read than everything at once
• use Org members only unless the audience genuinely extends past your organization
• give it a slug someone can say out loud
• remember that the publication pins its style, so tidy the style before publishing rather than after