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title: Sending links to unpublished pages
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

You can let users without direct access to the Xperience administration view pages that have not been published on the live site. This is useful, for example, when you want someone from outside the system to review a page before it gets published.

### Sending links to unpublished pages

1. In the **Pages** application, click on the page that you want to send to the user.
2. Switch to the **Properties -> URLs** tab.
3. Click on the **Show preview** link. A new window with a preview of the page opens (similar to what you can see in [Preview mode](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-pages.md#available-view-modes)).
4. Copy the address of the page from your browser's address bar.

You can now send the address to anyone without access to Xperience. For example, by copying the address into an email.

Preview links are also included in [workflow notification emails](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/configuring-the-environment-for-content-editors/configuring-workflows/configuring-workflow-email-notifications.md). In this case, the preview URL is generated in the context of the user who performed the workflow action.

> **Tip:** If you do not want the link to be functional anymore, use the **Generate preview link** () button next to the **Show preview** link. The system creates a new link and the previous one becomes obsolete.

> **Note:** **Configuration**
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> By default, the system generates new preview URLs automatically for pages under workflow whenever the page's workflow cycle is restarted. That is when the page switches from the **Published/Archived** step to the **Edit** step.
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> You can disable this behavior in **Settings -> Content -> Content management** by enabling the **Allow permanent preview links** setting.