The Content Staging module allows you to synchronize changes between staging (development/QA/testing) server and production server. It adds another level of control over published content. With content staging, the document life cycle looks like this:
- Document created
- Approved through the workflow process
- Document published on the staging server
- Review and synchronization by site manager - approval of staged content
- Document published on the live server
The synchronization also allows you to restrict the administration interface only to your local (secured) server, while the production server will only display the content. The synchronization is made through a secured web service.
Object Staging
Besides content, the Content Staging module allows you to synchronize also changes made to the web site code objects, such as page templates, CSS styles, web parts, etc. This feature greatly simplifies the deployment of changes from the development server to the live server. You can test e.g. changes of the CSS styles on your development server and then synchronize them to the live server on a button click.