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Preview behavior
- When you click the preview button, the preview session refreshes.
- Preview runs in its own Web application, on a non-standard port so that it can be protected by a firewall.
- Only one store preview window opens at a time. If a preview window is open and you click OK on the store preview options page, the preview opens in the existing window.
- By default, the store preview options page displays the home page URL of the store with which you are working in the Management Center.
- You can enter any valid store URL in the Store Address field. However, if you enter a URL for a store other than the store you are logged into in the Management Center, the preview does not reflect the date, time, and inventory options you choose.
- When you preview the store, if you change stores in the Management Center, the preview window closes.
- When you launch preview, you are a guest user. If you enter a store URL that is not accessible by a guest user, you might see an error page.
- You can disable commands from running within preview. For more information, see Command and view restrictions in preview.
- If you perform analytics on user traffic, someone testing the site using preview should not be logged since they are not an actual user.
To avoid logging the user traffic of a person using preview, user traffic logging is disabled within preview by default. You can configure caching to capture user traffic data.
- If you have created customized business contexts for the business context engine, you can use these business contexts within preview. For more information, see Add customized business contexts to preview.