# Save and publish your template

Save changes, publish a template version, and unpublish it.

While designing a template, you can save and preview changes before making it available for use. **Save** stores your edits; **Publish** allows that version to receive PDF jobs from Run or the API. The controls sit together in the editor, but serve different steps.

## 1. Save your edits

Select the version in the top bar, then choose **Save**. The button is available when there are unsaved changes and you have an editable view.

Saving records a point in the [version’s history](/docs/publishing/history/). You can keep editing afterwards; saving does not publish the template.

<figure class="doc-sim data-assets-illustration workflow-illustration" aria-label="Editor → Save stores changes in the selected version">
<div class="sim-stage"><div class="sim-panel"><div class="ds-head"><strong>My template · v2</strong><div class="wf-actions"><span class="sim-control sim-focus">Save</span><span class="sim-control sim-dark">Publish</span></div></div><div class="wf-rows"><div class=""><span>Version 2</span><small>Editing</small></div><div class=""><span>Status</span><small>Draft</small></div></div></div></div>
<figcaption>Editor → Save stores changes in the selected version</figcaption>
</figure>

## 2. Publish a version for PDF jobs

After saving, choose **Publish** in the toolbar. Publication applies to the **selected version**, rather than every version of the template.

Once published, its button becomes **Unpublish**. Open [Run](/docs/renders/playground/), select that version, and supply data to generate a PDF.

<figure class="doc-sim data-assets-illustration workflow-illustration" aria-label="Publish → the version is available for rendering">
<div class="sim-stage"><div class="sim-panel"><div class="ds-head"><strong>My template · v2</strong><div class="wf-actions"><span class="sim-control">Save</span><span class="sim-control sim-focus sim-dark">Publish</span></div></div><div class="wf-rows"><div class=""><span>Version 2</span><small>Editing</small></div><div class=""><span>Status</span><small>Draft</small></div></div></div></div>
<figcaption>Publish → the version is available for rendering</figcaption>
</figure>

## 3. Develop a template that is already in use

Published makes a version available for rendering; it does not lock its content. Saving changes to a version in use can affect subsequent jobs targeting that version.

To prepare a new design while the existing one remains available, [create a version from it](/docs/publishing/versions/). Edit and publish the new version, then switch your PDF workflow to its number when ready.

<figure class="doc-sim data-assets-illustration workflow-illustration" aria-label="Keep using v1 while preparing changes in v2">
<div class="sim-stage"><div class="sim-panel"><div class="ds-head"><strong>Versions</strong><div class="wf-actions"></div></div><div class="wf-rows"><div class=""><span>Version 1</span><small>Published</small></div><div class="sim-focus"><span>Version 2</span><small>Draft · new design</small></div></div></div></div>
<figcaption>Keep using v1 while preparing changes in v2</figcaption>
</figure>

## 4. Return a version to Draft

Select a published version and choose **Unpublish** to return it to Draft. Its content remains available for editing and preview, but it no longer meets the publication requirement for new render jobs.

If your workflow targets this number, switch to another published version first. Unpublishing does not delete the template or its previously generated PDFs.

<figure class="doc-sim data-assets-illustration workflow-illustration" aria-label="Unpublish → Draft · editing and preview remain available">
<div class="sim-stage"><div class="sim-panel"><div class="ds-head"><strong>My template · v2</strong><div class="wf-actions"><span class="sim-control">Save</span><span class="sim-control sim-focus sim-dark">Unpublish</span></div></div><div class="wf-rows"><div class=""><span>Version 2</span><small>Editing</small></div><div class=""><span>Status</span><small>Published</small></div></div></div></div>
<figcaption>Unpublish → Draft · editing and preview remain available</figcaption>
</figure>