Automatic data publishing

When the data of your website changes often and the website itself does not, such as a menu, prices, opening hours or news, your own assistant can bring the new data, and it goes online by itself. Anything that changes the design waits for you.

What goes online by itself

• The data of the sections the website already has, on any page: texts, lists, links and pictures.
• The announcement bar’s text and link, and the contact details: phone, email, WhatsApp, address and hours.
• New pages of a kind the website already has, such as a news item, linked from a list that is already there.

What waits for you

• The design: colours, fonts, the brand’s pictures and how each section is laid out.
• Sections added, moved or removed, and pages of a new kind.
• The website’s name, menu, footer and languages, and the title of the pages it already has.

If the draft holds one of these, nothing goes online by itself, not even the data. Publish it yourself, or ask your assistant to take that change back so the next time goes out by itself.

Turn it on

1. Open the website in the Panel, or in the Panel inside Studio, and find Automatic data publishing.
2. Press Turn it on, read what goes online by itself, and accept. On a free website you also accept that it keeps only one version, so what goes online cannot be taken back.
3. Choose how often your assistant comes by. If it has not come by a day after that, we email you.

Only the account’s holder turns it on or off, and the website has to be online.

Set up your assistant

1. Connect your assistant to Tsurito: read The connector.
2. Under Set it up in your assistant, press Copy the text. It appears once Automatic data publishing is on.
3. Paste it into a task of your assistant that repeats, such as every morning, and write where your data is. Your assistant can ask you where each piece of data goes.
4. Let that task use the Tsurito tools without asking you each time, the one that publishes the data included. Your assistant’s own help says how; it depends on the assistant and on your plan with it.

Choose a minute that is not on the hour, such as 7:10 rather than 7:00: fewer tasks start then. We cannot promise that every assistant lets a task run by itself, or keeps letting it.

Each time your assistant comes by

• It changes the draft, then asks us to publish it.
• If the draft holds only data, we build the new version and look at it on a computer and on a phone: the pages fit the screen, the pictures load and no section is left empty. We check how it looks, not whether the data is right.
• If it passes, it goes online in a few minutes. If it does not, nothing goes online, the website stays as it was, and your assistant tells you why.
• We email you when something could not go online, once per problem, and once more when it is solved. You can also ask for an email each time something goes online.

Your assistant’s own history may show a run as done even when nothing went online. The website’s page in the Panel says what really happened.

When nothing goes online by itself

• Automatic data publishing is off or paused, or the website is not online.
• Our terms of service changed since you last accepted them. On the website’s page in the Panel, under Automatic data publishing, press Accept the terms.
• The draft was changed by hand in Edit since the last publish: whoever edits by hand may be halfway. Publish the draft yourself or discard it.
• A version saved online from Studio and not published is newer than the draft. Publish it or discard it first.
• The website already went online by itself 4 times today, or the publishes of your account for the day are used up.
• The draft holds more than 10 new pages.
• The draft was not started from the version online.

Versions and going back

Each version that went online by itself is marked Automatic. A website with a subscription keeps its latest 30 versions plus the latest 7 automatic ones. A free website keeps only its latest version.

If you bring back an earlier version, Automatic data publishing pauses until you turn it on again, so the next run does not put the newer data back. Read Versions and going back.

If the website loses its subscription, it pauses too, and we email you: a free website keeps only one version, so what goes online by itself cannot be taken back. To go on, tick I understand that it cannot be taken back. and press Turn it on again.

If a version went online by itself after the one on your computer, Studio asks you to bring it here first, so you keep that data.

Turn it off

Press Turn it off on the website’s page. Your assistant’s task may keep running, but nothing goes online by itself until you turn it on again.