Everything you change in a building stays in a draft until you publish it. That gives you room to work at your own pace, and it gives you one moment to check your work before your employees feel it. The Review & publish panel is that moment. It tells you what changed, who changed it, what is blocking you, and what publishing will do to live bookings and building services.

Applies to

Admin roles: Subscription Owner, Subscription Admin, and Building Admin
Add-ons: Depending on building services. The Impact tab checks your building services, so rows for sensors, kiosks, controls, and app links only appear when those services are active on your building

Building statuses

Open the Buildings tab and the list tells you where every building stands before you click into any of them. That matters when several admins work in the same building, because it shows at a glance whether someone left work behind.

Status	What it means
Current	The building is published and there is nothing waiting. What you see is what your employees see.
Draft	The building is published, but it holds unpublished changes. The number of changes sits next to the status.
Not published	The building has never been published, so employees cannot see it yet. If it already holds changes, the number sits next to the status.

💡A status of Draft does not mean something is wrong. It only means work is waiting for a publish.

What the review panel shows you

The panel opens over the page you are on (from the building overview or draft building) and always waits for your latest edit to save first, so what you review is exactly what you are about to publish. It has four tabs.

Overview is the summary: whether you can publish, what publishing will touch, and how many changes are waiting. Each card links through to its own tab.
Issues lists what blocks you. Issues are grouped by problem and by what they affect, so ten desks without an outline show up as one row instead of ten. Click a row and Mapiq takes you to the spot where you fix it, either the side panel or the floorplan editor. Issues are the only thing that can block a publish, and the tooltip on the publish button always names how many are left.
Impact shows what publishing will cost. Mapiq checks your draft against reservations, sensors, kiosks, controls, and app links, and states each effect in plain words, such as a reservation that will be cancelled because its booked location has been removed. Impact never blocks a publish. The choice stays yours.
Changes is the full list of what is about to go live, grouped per floor with the people who edited that floor since the last publish. Review floor takes you into the floorplan for that floor.

💡 Tip: Not happy with what you see? You have two ways back. Discard all edits clears the draft and returns the building to its last published version. Or open Version history in the building model and pick a restore point inside the current draft: everything made after that point is removed, and everything before it stays. Both work on the draft only, so a published version is never touched. A dedicated article walks through this in detail.

Reviewing Your Building

After configuring your building, review the draft before you publish it, so you know what changed and what it will affect.

Go to the Buildings tab and select the building you want to review.
💡The Draft building tile already tells you how many blocking issues and how many changes the draft holds, so you know what to expect before you open the panel.
Click Review & publish to open the review panel.
On the Overview tab, check the three cards: Publish status tells you whether you can publish, Impact lists what publishing will touch, and Changes counts what is waiting.
Open the Issues tab. Click any row to jump to where you fix it, either the side panel or the floorplan editor.
Fix the problem, then reopen the panel and confirm the issue count has dropped.
Open the Impact tab and read what publishing will do to reservations, sensors, kiosks, controls, and app links.
Open the Changes tab to see everything that is about to go live, grouped per floor. Click Review floor to open the floorplan for a floor.

💡You can open the same panel while you work inside the building model. Review & publish on the draft gives you the identical side panel, so you never have to walk back to the building overview.

The issue count in the building header updates while you work, so you can keep an eye on it as you go. Processing a change can take a few seconds.

Publishing Your Building

Once no blocking issues are left, publish your building so your employees see it in the app.

Go to the Buildings tab and select the building you want to publish.
Click Review & publish.
On the Overview tab, confirm Publish status reads ready to publish. If it reads blocked, resolve the issues listed on the Issues tab first.
Check the Impact tab one last time, so you know who is affected before you commit.
Click Publish changes in the footer of the panel.
A confirmation appears, and the building overview shows the new version under Building update published.
Check that same tile for follow-up work. Under Items affected by this update you see what the publish left behind, for example 2 sensors were uncommissioned. Click a row to see the details and pick the work up from there. When nothing needs your attention, the tile reads No impact from this update.

🚨 Publishing cannot be undone. If you need to step back before publishing, use Discard all edits to clear the draft, or pick a restore point in Version history to undo only the edits made after that point. Both can remove work by other admins, so inform your team before proceeding.

Behind the scenes

Only issues can block you — The publish button stays off while blocking issues remain. Impact is advisory and never stops a publish, so a warning about cancelled bookings is yours to weigh.
Employees hear about cancellations — When a change removes a booked location, the people who lose that booking get a notification.
Impact counts groups, not items — The number next to the Impact tab is the number of effects listed, not the number of things affected. One row can hold dozens of reservations.
A service that cannot be checked says so — The five impact areas are checked on their own. If one fails, you get a warning row naming it instead of a silent pass.
A single floor can be reviewed on its own — Review floor opens the same panel scoped to that floor, with the Issues and Changes tabs. There is no Impact tab there, because impact is calculated for the whole building.
Discarding affects everyone's work — Discarding the draft returns the building to its last published version, including edits made by other admins. Tell your team before you do it.
Restoring stops at the last publish — You can roll back to any point inside the current draft, but a published version is final. Contact us if you need one reverted.
Restore points cannot be undone — Both discarding and restoring ask for confirmation first, and neither can be reversed afterwards.

💬 Need More Help?

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Reviewing & Publishing Your Building(s)