Panel: Preview changes of published pages

[thomasverleye]

As I understand (please do correct me if I'm wrong here), the current status of the "preview" option is just an option to show or hide the open button and only generates a preview token for "draft" pages. For published pages it's just a link to open the page.

It would be awesome to see a feature where the panel user can make some changes to a published page (e.g. homepage) and a new panel button appears named preview changes. If you click this button you open the homepage with the unsaved changes applied (maybe with a token just like Kirby does this for draft pages to preview). This would help out the user really well to not publish faulty content.

And, if I can dream out loud here are some extra cherries on top of this feature:

• Make it also available for site.yml options so the user can preview general changes site-wide.
• Add a small fixed icon in the corner to notify the user this page is a preview.
  • This icon could link back to the panel of that page.
  • The user will clearly know the page still needs to be saved.

[texnixe]

This is a duplicate of https://github.com/getkirby/ideas/issues/65.

Please upvote the existing idea issue instead.