# Publish Confluence pages from a draft space to a live space

To publish Confluence pages from a draft space to a live space, open the draft space's Publishing **Space settings**, turn on **Enable publishing**, pick the live space as the **Target space**, choose how pages are arranged on the Structure tab, and save. Then publish pages one at a time or all at once.

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## Before you start

| **You need**                                    | **Why**                                                           |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Space administrator of the draft (source) space | Only source space administrators see Space settings.              |
| Space administrator of the live (target) space  | You can only choose a target space you administer.                |
| A live space that already exists                | Publishing copies into an existing space; it does not create one. |

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## Steps

1. Open the space and select **Capable Publishing** in the sidebar (in the Suite, **Capable**, then **Publishing**). Under Manage, select **Space settings**.
2. On the **Setup** tab, choose the live space under **Target space**, then turn on **Enable publishing**.
3. Leave **Allow manual publishing** on so people can publish from the page byline. Turn on **Require comment on publish** if every publish needs a reason.
4. On the **Structure** tab, set **Parent content** if pages should go under one page, and choose **Preserve hierarchy** to mirror the page tree. Check the **Preview**.
5. Select **Save**.
6. Publish a page from its **Publishing** byline item, or publish everything with **Publish all** on the **Maintenance** tab.

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## What happens next

Each publish is a copy of the page, with its attachments and labels, in the live space. The copy keeps a link back to the source, so when the draft is edited it shows as **Outdated** and you can update the live copy in one click. Readers use the live space, and work in progress stays in the draft space.

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## Related

### [Publishing settings](https://help.gocapable.com/publishing/publishing-settings.html)

Every setting in detail.

### [Choose where published Confluence pages land in the target space](https://help.gocapable.com/publishing/choose-where-published-confluence-pages-land-in-the-target-space.html)

Parent page and page tree.

### [Bulk publish Confluence pages](https://help.gocapable.com/publishing/bulk-publish-confluence-pages.html)

Publish a whole space at once.

### [What a publish actually copies](https://help.gocapable.com/publishing/what-a-publish-actually-copies.html)

What comes across and what does not.

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_Draft in one space, publish to another._