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How to publish

There are three ways to publish:
  • From the editor. Open the Publish menu in the top right of the editor and click Publish. The menu shows pending changes, any open pull request, and the current publish state.
  • From local dev. Push to the project’s published branch using git or the Evidence CLI. The push triggers a publish automatically.
  • From GitHub. Merge a pull request into the published branch on GitHub.
You can use any combination of these — Studio, your local environment, and GitHub stay in sync through the project’s repo.

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Pull requests

When you open a pull request against the published branch, Evidence runs checks and posts a preview:
  • Markdown validation check: Catches invalid syntax and broken components before merge.
  • access.yaml validation check: Validates page level access rules so a bad config can’t take down viewer access.
  • Preview link: A comment on the PR linking to a deployed preview of the branch, so reviewers can see the report before merging.
The checks appear as status checks on the PR — you can configure branch protection in GitHub to block merges until they pass.

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Publish history and rollback

Every project has a publish history page that lists every publish attempt (publishes, CLI/local pushes, and PR merges), with who triggered it, the commit, the result, and a detail view for failures. From the history page you can:
  • Roll back to any previous successful publish.
  • Retry a failed publish.

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Reliable publishes

  • Failed publishes never affect viewers. If a publish fails, the previous successful version stays live. Viewers don’t see broken reports while you fix the issue.
  • Email alerts on failure. Org admins get an email when a publish fails.
  • Project banner on failure. When the latest publish failed, every project page in Studio shows a banner linking to the failure in history.

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Connecting GitHub

By default, every project is backed by an Evidence-managed git repo — you don’t need to do anything to get the publish flow above. If you want the repo to live in your own GitHub organization so you can edit it locally, review changes through your existing PR process, or hook it into your own CI, connect the Evidence GitHub App:
  1. Install the Evidence GitHub App. From Organization Settings, connect Evidence to your GitHub account or organization. You can grant access to all repos or just the ones you choose, and update that selection later.
  2. Link a repo to a project. Open the project, then Project Settings → Version Control, and select Connect to GitHub repository. Pick the repo, the branch to use as the published branch, and the project root path.
  3. First publish. Click Publish in the editor to push the current state to GitHub. From then on, all three publish flows (editor, local dev, GitHub PR merge) work against your repo.
See Version Control for branching strategies and the list of files that are version controlled.

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Sharing access

Once a report is published, control who can view it with access.yaml. See Page Level Access Control for the full schema and patterns for sharing with teammates, groups, and external customers. Roles are managed from the Team Settings page:
  • Viewer: Can view published reports they’ve been granted access to.
  • Org Viewer: Can view all published reports in the org.
  • Developer: Can edit reports and configure data sources.
  • Admin: Developer permissions plus organization settings.