How to see a live version of the site when in offline mode

Leander Geldof asked on January 21, 2019 16:13

The preview version of the website does not run all of our custom webparts code. (in this case it's a search form) Is it possible to view a page in live mode yet the site being in offline mode?

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Eric Dugre answered on January 22, 2019 21:35

Unfortunately not. The SiteIsOffline flag is checked in our URL processing engine and is run for all requests that are in "LiveSite" ViewMode. You can technically access the page in edit mode (?viewmode=18), but this is also a very different view from the live site.

You could consider altering your web parts to operate as expected in Preview mode, or you could take a backup of the site and run it locally where you can put it "online" and view the live changes.

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