---
key: publish-a-critical-alert-draft
title: Publish a draft or roll back to an earlier version
audience: staff
section: critical-alerts
routes: ["/critical-alerts/rules", "/critical-alerts/destinations", "/critical-alerts/templates", "/critical-alerts/schedules"]
features: ["critical_alerts.core"]
since: 0.0.1
updated: 0.0.1
status: published
summary: Understand why a new rule, destination, template or schedule does nothing until you press Publish, and how to make an earlier live version current again.
keywords: [publish, go live, draft, not working, version, rollback, undo a change, live version, changes pending]
related: [create-a-critical-alert-rule, add-a-critical-alert-destination, create-a-critical-alert-template, create-an-on-call-schedule]
---

In the sidebar, open **Critical Alerts**, then **Setup**, then **Rules**. The page addresses are `/critical-alerts/rules`, `/critical-alerts/destinations`, `/critical-alerts/templates` and `/critical-alerts/schedules`.

Rules, destinations, templates and schedules each have a draft and a live version. Editing changes the draft. Live signals only ever use the live version, so nothing you change takes effect until you publish. Sources, recipes and suppression windows have no separate live version; what you save is what runs, as long as its **Status** allows it.

## Before you start

- Your admin has to give your role permission to manage the kind of record you are publishing.

## Steps

1. Find the row. Its version line reads "Draft v1" (never published), "Live v2 · Draft changes pending" (edited since the last publish) or "Live v2" (nothing waiting).
2. Press **Publish** on the row.
3. Nova confirms with a message such as "Rule published." and the version line shows the new live number.

To go back to an earlier version:

1. Press **Edit** on the row.
2. Scroll to **Version history** at the bottom of the drawer.
3. Press **Make live** on the version you want. Nova confirms with "Rule live version updated." (or the matching message for a destination, template or schedule).

## What you see

- **Publish** is greyed out when the row is already live with no pending changes.
- On **Schedules**, the **Filters** button has a **Publish state** filter, so you can list everything with changes pending.
- Each row also carries the **Status** set in its form. Set it to **Disabled** to take the record out of use without deleting it.

## If something looks different

- The alert uses old wording after you edited the template: you saved the draft but did not press **Publish**.
- The page is missing from the sidebar: your role cannot manage that kind of record.
- You published by mistake: open **Version history** and press **Make live** on the previous version.

[[route:/critical-alerts/rules|Open Rules]]