It goes public immediately. There is no confirmation, no preview and no undo. One click on Publish in the card menu and whatever is in your draft at that moment becomes the live project page, so check the project in the builder before you use it.
What actually happens is that your current draft is made the published version. If the project was already live, this replaces what visitors were seeing with everything you have changed since: new images, edited text, a different location, connected journals, all of it at once.
It also records a version
Publishing is the only moment UNI writes a version of your project, so this button is what puts a recovery point on the record. If a publish went out too early, open the project and restore an earlier version into your draft, check it, and publish that.
Failed to publish project usually means something is missing
Four things have to be present before a project can be published:
- A title.
- A description.
- At least one image or video.
- At least one discipline.
The card menu does not tell you which one is missing; it only says the publish failed. Open the project in the builder and press Publish there instead, because that button names the missing field.
There is no unpublish
The Unpublish option in the same menu currently does nothing except say the feature is coming. Nothing is switched off, and pressing it repeatedly changes nothing.
A published project cannot be taken back to draft by you. What exists instead is a private setting, which is applied by the UNI team on request rather than by a switch on your side. Private projects and exactly who can still see one explains what private does and does not hide, and How can I change the visibility of my project to private covers how to ask.
Publishing can change the project's address
The web address is built from the title and description, so publishing after renaming a project gives it a new address and the old one stops working. That matters if you have already shared the link. See Your project web address changes when you rename it.
Publish from the builder when you are not sure
The card menu is a shortcut for a project you already know is ready. When you are not certain, open it, look at it, and publish from there.