Preview of yet unpublished article versions

• Type: Feature Request
• Status: Reviewed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Already in the Product
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Web Content > Web Content Administration
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Since there is an effort to improve draft preview functionality under way, see e.g. LPS-87314, it should also take new unpublished article versions into accout.

Liferay already has a little known and IMHO very confusing feature with the publish date of an article. Add a new article version with a later publish date and it will only become visible at that later date. Till then, an older version is shown. My customers found this feature very confusing, because you have no clear timeline when which version is shown and sometimes when multiple people edit articles, weird things happen (at least it is sometimes difficult to understand or to find out, why this content is shown and not the content in the editor) ...

These "yet unpublished versions" should be also previewable. I'd like to see in the "backend" which articles have draft and unpublished versions. Editors should be instantly aware that there are yet unpublished versions and those versions should be previewable.