Change Workflow

Every project has a change workflow that decides what happens when you edit it. You can let edits apply immediately, or hold them as pending changes on a draft so you can review before they reach everyone. The workflow you choose changes what you see in the editor — including whether drafts and the Review & Delivery tools are available at all.

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Where to find the change workflow

The change workflow is a per-project setting:

1. Go to the Projects page.
2. Click the ⋮ menu on the project card.
3. Select Settings.
4. Open the Change Workflow tab.

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The workflow options

The two Git options are unavailable until a Git integration is connected for the project. New projects start on Saved directly.

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Saved directly

In Saved directly mode, editing is saving. Each change you make — by hand, with the Lab Agent, or with Ctrl+I — updates the project’s saved version straight away and appears on the Timeline as a new change on main. This is the fastest way to work, and it is a good fit when you are exploring on your own. There are no drafts and no Save step, so the New draft action and the Review & Delivery tools are not shown.

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Pending changes + Save

In Pending changes + Save mode, your edits are collected on a draft — a separate stream that forks from main — and are not visible to the rest of your team until you save. This gives you a place to work through a change, test it, and (optionally) have it reviewed before it lands.

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Create a draft

With this workflow active, a + New draft action appears at the top of the Timeline panel. Click it to start a draft. Leapter names the draft for you and switches you onto it — the stream indicator at the bottom of the editor shows which draft you are on.

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Work on the draft

Edit as usual. Every change you make now belongs to the draft, not to main. You can switch back to main at any time from the Timeline, and switch between streams to compare.

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Save the draft to main

When the draft is ready, save it. Leapter merges your draft’s changes into main as a new version for everyone, and the Timeline records an Apply <draft> entry showing where the draft merged back. Saving runs through the Review & Delivery panel, where any approval rules are checked first. See Review & Approvals for the full flow.

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What to do next

• Review & Approvals — assign reviewers and require checks before a draft reaches main
• Timeline — follow drafts and applies in the change graph
• Test your Blueprint — verify a draft before you save it