Passports

Passport Drafts

A passport draft is a staged, editable working copy of a passport’s content and configuration. Drafts let editors compose and review passports without exposing them through the resolver and without committing the immutable snapshot that publication produces.

Draft vs Published

PropertyDraftPublished
Visible at the resolver URLNoYes
EditableYesNo (immutable snapshot)
Counted against mint volumeNoYes
Affected by template / theme changesYes — reflects current configurationNo — frozen at publish time

Lifecycle

1

Create a draft

Editors start a draft from the product detail surface or from a previously published passport that needs an amended successor.

2

Iterate

Modify content, change template, switch theme, attach Market Packs. Use the live preview to verify rendering.

3

Publish

Publishing creates the immutable snapshot, generates the HTML artifact, and exposes the passport at the resolver URL.

Drafts and Governance

Drafts are not subject to break-glass or controlled-update workflows because nothing public has been issued yet. Once published, the passport becomes immutable and any subsequent change requires re-publication or, for narrowly scoped corrections, a controlled update or break-glass amendment.