Note: This article only applies to Community Admins, Brand Super Admins, or applicable custom roles. For more details on Creator Studio access, please refer to the Defining Roles and Permissions article.

Sometimes you have a campaign that contains sensitive information that you want to keep hidden even from other Creator Studio users. Or you're planning a surprise! Whatever the reason, Community Admins and Brand Super Admins can hide a draft from colleagues. The private draft can even be scheduled to be published at a later date. Once published, all users that would normally be able to see the campaign will then be able to see the campaign and its content.

Create a Private Draft

While creating a campaign in Creator Studio, or editing a campaign that you created, select Change to private draft under the menu to the right of the campaign title at the top left of the editor. Selecting this setting hides the campaign from all other Creator Studio users until it is published.

Note: Only you can see the private draft setting on campaigns that you created. You cannot see the private draft setting on campaigns created by other users.

The author for a private draft must be either the community default (program name) or the creator of the private draft. You will be unable to save a private draft if the author has been set to another user.

Attempting to do so will return the error: "The author must be the creator or the program for hidden content."

What Members See

Other users won't see anything! From the Campaigns page, other Creator Studio users cannot search for or locate your private draft.

After the campaign is published, other Creator Studio users can edit the campaign but they cannot see the private draft setting. They will never know that you hid the draft.

Make a Private Draft a Shared Draft

To unhide a campaign, simply select Change to shared draft from under the menu to the right of the campaign title at the top left of the editor.

Publish/Schedule a Private Draft Campaign

You can save a campaign as a private draft and schedule it as long as the author is you or the community default.

• If you try to change the author of a private draft to someone other than yourself or the community default, the campaign cannot be saved manually or automatically. No error will be returned on the Devlier page, however, if you try to publish the campaign while on the Review page, you will receive an error and the draft will remain private.
• If you create and schedule a campaign where the author is not you or the community default, then go back and try and set it to private, you will receive the following error and it will not be saved as private.