Letting someone outside the Optimizely CMS review a page before it goes live sounds like a setting you switch on. It is not one. Optimizely SaaS does not ship this out of the box, and on a headless build you have to develop it yourself. It is a small feature with a fair amount going on underneath, and it matters more to the business than its size suggests.
Here is how it works, what I got wrong, and the decisions worth making early.
The request
A few weeks before go-live, someone always asks:
“Can you send a link so they can see the page before we publish it?”
The reviewer is usually a legal contact, a brand manager, or a client sponsor. They will not get a CMS account, they will not be trained, and they will open the link on their phone.
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