Publishing takes the calculator you built in the editor and makes a live, public copy that visitors can use. This article walks through the Publish flow, the formula check that runs before you go live, and what to do right after publishing.
Before you can publish
The Publish button lives in the editor's top navigation bar. It stays disabled until you have unsaved changes to push — once your draft matches what's already live, there's nothing new to publish and the button greys out.
In practice that means: make an edit, the button activates; publish, and it deactivates again until your next change.
The Publish modal
Click Publish to open the publish dialog. Before it lets you go live, Numio runs a quick formula verification pass over every result block in your project:
- Numeric results are checked to confirm their formula (or constant) is present and verified. A result whose formula hasn't been verified shows up with a red
!next to its title. - Logic results are flagged if they have no logic block assigned, or a rule is incomplete.
- Chart results are flagged if any series is missing a value.
Each result is listed with its formula rendered out (for example = A1 * 0.2) so you can confirm it reads the way you expect. Review the list, and if anything is flagged red, close the modal and fix it in the Formula tab before trying again.
The Publish button at the bottom of the modal stays disabled while any formula error is present. Once everything checks out, click Publish to go live.
After publishing
When the publish succeeds, the modal switches to a confirmation screen with two options:
- Close — dismiss the dialog and return to the editor.
- View Sandbox — open the new live version in a sandbox preview, where you can click through the calculator exactly as a visitor would without recording a response. See Sandbox preview and view-only responses for details.
Publishing also assigns your project a live ID behind the scenes. This is what unlocks sharing: the Share button in the editor toolbar stays disabled until a project has been published at least once. Once it's live, you can hand out links and embed it — see Share a project via link.
Each publish is a new version
Every time you publish, Numio saves an immutable snapshot of your project as a new version and points the live link at it. Existing responses keep the version they were collected on, so your analytics stay accurate across changes. See Versions and re-publishing for how this affects reporting.
Republishing
To push later changes, just edit your project and click Publish again. The same verification runs, a new version is created, and your existing share and embed links automatically serve the updated calculator — the URLs don't change.