Use a dedicated Staging Environment to build, test, and quality check changes to your Pages site configuration and design without impacting the live production site. The Staging Environment provides a secure, controlled space for your team to QA and approve all updates before they reach your customers. This is vital for complex launches, like new intent pages, where you need to review the final look and feel before going live.

The Staging Environment allows you to make and review the following changes on a staging domain:

• Add New Page Groups: Launch directories, locators, and additional page types like intent pages.
• Modify Existing Page Groups: Update settings for an existing group, including locales, saved filters, and URL templates.
• Update or Revert the Version of the Site: Test a new version of the underlying site components.
• Modify the layouts for page groups.
• Modify the global site styling.

Set up Staging Environment and Workflow

To create a staging environment:

1. Click Pages in the navigation bar and click on the desired Pages site. 
2. Click Site Configuration. 
3. Click Create Staging Environment. 

Once created, click View Production Environment (or View Staging Environment, depending on which environment you are currently in) to toggle between the Production and Staging Environments to make and review your changes.

To publish your changes:

1. Be sure to fully QA your changes before publishing.
2. Navigate back to the Site Configuration screen.
3. Click Publish to Production.

Note: This action will completely replace your existing site at the production domain with the Staging Environment content and cannot be undone. 

Publishing your changes to production will delete your staging environment. You will need to create a new one if you want to use a staging environment again.