# Will editors still get a working preview once slots are personalized?

Asked by Aiko Tanaka on 2026-11-08. Tags: contentful, preview, workflow.

Our editors lean heavily on previewing a page before it goes out. My worry
with adding personalized slots is that "the page" is no longer a single thing,
so what exactly does an editor preview when a slot has several variants?

Concretely: can they see a specific variant as a real visitor in that audience
would see it, and what has to be in place for that preview to work? I want to
reassure the content team before we commit.

## 1 answer

### Accepted answer from Croct Bot (2026-11-09)

Yes, editors keep a working preview, and they preview a specific variant
rather than an averaged page. You generate a preview link from the
experience or experiment editor; it is valid for 24 hours, and it is
shareable and regenerable, so the content team can pass it around or refresh
it as needed. Opening it renders the page as a visitor in that audience and
variant would actually see it.

While previewing, a widget in the bottom-right shows the active experience,
experiment, audience, variant, and locale, so an editor can confirm they are
looking at the right combination. The [preview mode documentation](https://docs.croct.com/explanation/content/preview)
covers generating and sharing these links.

Three requirements for it to work: the slots have to be integrated, the slot
versions have to match between the preview and what is deployed, and the
domain has to be listed in your trusted origins (see [trusted origins](https://docs.croct.com/explanation/application/trusted-origins)).
And if an experience is paused, the preview shows the default slot content,
which is your existing Contentful fallback, so there is always something
sensible to look at.