Platform decisions that are shown with Prepublish checks

Summary

This reference explains how decisions are handled across the Siteimprove Platform, the Live view tab in CMS Plugins, and Prepublish Content Checks. It compares supported decision levels, whether users can take action, and how spelling, broken links, accessibility, policy, and SEO checks behave in each location.

Overview

As the Prepublish (Content Check) utilizes a different checking process than the checks done in the Siteimprove Platform of the live published pages, at this time, only account-level decisions are reflected, and page-level and site-level decisions do not carry over. You also cannot make decisions on issues within the plugin or Prepublish checks; decisions need to be made within the Siteimprove Platform. 

Refer to the breakdown of the decisions available within the Siteimprove Platform.

Decision reference

Decision Levels

• Siteimprove Platform
  • Account-level
  • Site-level
  • Page-level
• Live view (This page) tab in CMS Plugins
  • Account-level
  • Site-level
  • Page-level
• Prepublish (Content Checks)
  • Account-level
  • Page-level decisions not applied
  • Site-level decisions not applied

Reflecting Decisions

• Siteimprove Platform: All decision levels apply, including approved spellings, ignored policies, etc.
• Live view (This page) tab in CMS Plugins: Most decisions are reflected, such as Spelling and Policy decisions. Accessibility and SEO decisions have some limitations.
• Prepublish (Content Checks): Only account-level decisions are reflected; page-level and site-level decisions do not carry over.

Actionability

• Siteimprove Platform: Full decision-making capabilities (e.g., ignore issues, approve spelling).
• Live view (This page) tab in CMS Plugins: Read-only; requires users to make decisions in the Siteimprove platform.
• Prepublish (Content Checks): Read-only; decisions must be made in the platform (no decision-making in Prepublish).

Quality Assurance: Spelling Checks

• Siteimprove Platform: Approved/misspelled words are respected across all decision levels.
• Live view (This page) tab in CMS Plugins: Approved and misspelled words are reflected with some refreshing required.
• Prepublish (Content Checks): Only account-level decisions for spelling are respected; site-level and page-level decisions are not applied.

Quality Assurance: Broken Links

• Siteimprove Platform: All broken link decisions are applied.
• Live view (This page) tab in CMS Plugins: Decisions on broken links don't display at this time.
• Prepublish (Content Checks): Broken links are not displayed in Prepublish checks at this time due to the impact on performance.

Accessibility Checks

• Siteimprove Platform: Full support for accessibility decisions.
• Live view (This page) tab in CMS Plugins: Accessibility decisions are not reflected due to a lack of site-level or page-level context.
• Prepublish (Content Checks): Accessibility decisions are not reflected due to a lack of site-level or page-level context.

Policy Checks

• Siteimprove Platform: Policy decisions at all levels are fully applied (site, page, account).
• Live view (This page) tab in CMS Plugins: Policy decisions at page-level are reflected if the policy is marked correctly in the Siteimprove platform to display in the plugin ('CMS Plugin,' 'Shared', and 'All sites' need to be checked).
• Prepublish (Content Checks): Only account-wide policy checks are run in Prepublish; decisions don't come through, as you can only ignore policies at the page-level.

SEO Checks

• Siteimprove Platform: SEO insights reflected, but as decisions are not available for SEO, they are not supported.
• Live view (This page) tab in CMS Plugins: SEO insights reflected, but as decisions are not available for SEO, they are not supported.
• Prepublish (Content Checks): SEO insights reflected, but as decisions are not available for SEO, they are not supported.