Get public URL before publishing

I just started using this recently and was surprised that this feature wasn't available!In our company, we need to provide topic URLs to other departments in advance.Manually changing URLs is very dangerous.This is an old post, but I would appreciate your consideration.

See this recent post for some good news :)

​@Erik_ Thanks for letting me know. I'm really looking forward to the update.

Thanks for this idea and to everyone who's contributed here.

This is being tracked alongside a related idea and we're moving it into discovery as part of broader content workflow improvements. The ability to get a stable, production-ready URL before publishing is a clear need for teams coordinating community content with external campaigns and deployments. We'll keep this thread updated as we learn more.

Exactly! I have to provide our development, Marketing, and Product teams with REAL URLs during the development cycle. Which means, I can’t use Drafts and must create hidden Categories so the articles aren't where they are supposed to be and must be moved post-release (which changes the URL, but if one uses a shortened URL with JUST the Topic ID, it works...) but it’s a PAIN.

​@danielwal_coco  Completely understand, I’m investigating as part of the broader content workflow improvements we are planning this year. I will do my best to try and deliver this one earlier if possible given the pains communicated by everyone on this idea.

One other thing, when creating a new article, it’s Topic ID (for Insided’s backend) should be the same Topic ID that the front end uses.

Great callout, agreed, we need to make this consistent between surfaces (backend and frontend)