Publish your work

Once a board is ready, publishing it takes a single action. There is no "publish, then list" two-step, and no in-between state that only you can see: published means public.

Publishing

Right-click the storyboard in the file tree, or use Publish in the canvas property panel:

1. Fill in a name and description. They appear on the Marketplace card and the work page, and they are the main thing search has to go on.
2. Decide whether to allow remixing. Tick it and others can start their own copy from your work; leave it off and it is simply something to watch and bookmark. You can change this at any time.
3. Confirm.

Publishing then runs in the background: it builds the new version, including its cover and any narration audio, which can take a minute for a narrated board. You can close the dialog at any time — publishing carries on without it. Nothing goes live until the whole version is ready, so a publish that fails leaves the previous version in place.

While building the version, publishing also checks it: every slide is rendered, and a widget that fails to render or a structural error in the board stops the publish — the message says which slide and what went wrong, so you can fix it and publish again. Softer observations (crowded slides, small text, misaligned widgets) never stop publishing; they are listed alongside the result.

Every slide with narration gets audio. If the audio for some slides can't be generated, publishing retries automatically and only regenerates those slides. Narration credits are deducted as the audio is generated; if publishing ultimately fails, they are refunded.

The work page is reachable from the property panel and from "My creations". It is reachable anonymously and indexable by search engines.

Files travel with the board, and they become public. If your board references files — a PDF, an image, a dataset — publishing puts those exact bytes where anyone can download them, so that the preview player on the work page can show them without asking visitors to sign in. Before the board goes live you get the list of which files those are, and nothing is written until you confirm it. The list only ever contains what the board actually references; the rest of your workspace stays private.

Size limit: a published board, counted with its narration audio, must stay under 128 MB — the same ceiling as exporting a .vizpkg, because anyone who applies your template downloads exactly those bytes. If the board is over, publishing stops before anything is created and the dialog lists what pushed it over.

Editing it afterwards

Your draft stays in your own workspace — publishing does not fork a copy of it, so what you keep editing is the original. Your edits do not go live on their own: the document shows "has unpublished changes" in the file tree, and Update pushes a new version.

Each publish creates a numbered version: the first is 1.0.0 and every update raises it (1.1.0, 1.2.0, …). A published version never changes afterwards.

That is deliberate. Readers always see the last version you deliberately confirmed.

Making it look right when shared

When a work page is shared into a chat app or social platform, the crawler picks up the cover — the first slide of your board. The cover belongs to a version: every publish (updates included) makes one for that version as part of publishing, and it does not change afterwards.

Keep what matters near the center of that first slide. Platforms crop differently: some show 1.91:1, others (WeChat among them) crop to a square no matter what you give them. We pad the sides rather than cropping, so the padding lands in the area that gets cut — but a title pushed right up against the canvas edge will still be clipped in a square crop.

Share links can carry the current slide: navigate to a slide on the work page, then copy the link, and it opens there.

Taking it down

To stop it appearing on the Marketplace, right-click the document in the file tree, or use Take down in "My creations". Taking down is reversible — restore it and the content comes back unchanged, cover and narration audio included.

You can take a board down while it is being published ("My creations" shows Publishing): it takes effect once that publish finishes. Deleting a board has to wait until publishing finishes.

Related

• Publish a widget from the command line — the widget publishing chain (same model, via the CLI)
• Export and share — package it into a .vizpkg file