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Publish, unpublish and the completeness chips
The difference between a draft and a published type, in the terms the platform uses.
Unpublished is not deleted. It still works by link.
What publish does
Publish makes a question type listed and assignable — it appears in the pickers and can be added to a ladder or a delivery. The toast says exactly that.
Publishing is blocked while render verification has errors, and the control tells you so rather than failing quietly.
What unpublish does not do
This is the part worth understanding, because it is not what most people assume. The confirmation says it plainly: the type still works by link and keeps its token. It leaves your published list and cannot be added to new ladders or deliveries.
Unpublishing is the right way to retire something. Existing links keep working, so a class mid-way through is not broken, and the learner records stay attached. Deleting takes the generated questions, the ladder steps and those records with it.
Restore puts an item back to draft. The toast for each action says what happened: published, unpublished, or restored to draft.
The seven completeness chips
The chips — Details, Shared settings, Dynamic content, Stem & answer, Hints, Solutions, Active learning — are each Empty, Has content or Confirmed.
They do not block publishing. They are a record of what you have reviewed, which is a different and more useful thing: a section full of unread AI output is honestly Has content, and only your Mark section complete makes it Confirmed.
Mode readiness
A delivery has its own readiness checks, and they read these sections. A type with no hints is fine for an exam and poor for active learning; a type with no stem variants is flagged when you put it in an exam, an assignment or a sprint.
That is why the Intended delivery modes field exists on a ladder: set it and the type picker shows readiness badges against each type, so you find out before you build rather than at publish time. Deliveries covers the rest.