What changed

Before: Two buttons. Save handled drafts and workflow actions; Update/Publish handled going live. It wasn't always clear which one to use.

Now: One button. Its color and label tell you exactly what will happen when you click it, and the dropdown contains every other action available for the asset's current state.

The three Save states

The Save button always looks like one of these:

• 🟠 Save Draft (orange) — Your changes save as a draft. Nothing is live on your site.

• 🟢 Save & Publish (green) — Your changes will go live the moment you click.

• 🔵 Save Changes (blue) — The asset is removed from the web. You're saving edits, but nothing is publishing.

If you only remember one thing: green means live. If the button isn't green, readers won't see your changes yet.

The basic flow (no workflow configured)

1. Start a new article. Save button is orange — Save Draft. Click it as often as you want while you write.

2. Ready to publish? Open the dropdown, choose Save & Publish. The Publish Updates modal appears (publication date, revision comment, etc. — same as before).

3. Click the green Save Changes button in the modal. Your asset is now live, and the Save button turns green.

4. Making edits to a live asset? Clicking green Save & Publish publishes them immediately. To stage edits without affecting the live page, choose Save Draft from the dropdown first — the button will go back to orange until you publish again.

Two things long-time users should know

1. "Save" no longer means "publish." In the legacy CMS, hitting Save published your changes. In NXT, Save respects the asset's current state — green publishes, orange drafts, blue saves-while-offline. Watch the button color before clicking.

2. There's no more Update/Publish button. Everything publishing-related now lives on the Save control or in its dropdown. If you're looking for "Update," it's the green Save & Publish.

Taking an asset offline and bringing it back

• Remove from Web (in the Save dropdown when the asset is live) takes the asset off your site. The Save button turns blue; you can keep editing.

• Restore to Web (in the dropdown when the asset is offline) brings it back. You'll be asked whether to republish the last live version or apply your latest edits.

If your site uses workflows

The same Save control works inside workflows — its color reflects what the current workflow step does:

• Steps that publish to the web (Ready for Web, Force Live, Ready for Print) → green Save & Publish

• Steps that force draft (Force Draft, Return on Draft) → orange Save Draft

• Other steps → blue Save Changes

The dropdown gains Promote and Demote options to move the asset between workflow steps. If the step you're moving to publishes the asset, the option will read Promote and Publish to [Step Name] in green text, and you'll see the Publish Updates modal.

Note: When a workflow is applied, Remove from Web is disabled — workflow rules govern publication state.

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