Keep useful results in Collections
Collections is the project-scoped library for results worth using again. It keeps the finished material, its representations, and its source provenance together without turning every temporary file or transcript detail into a permanent output.
Choose what deserves to persist
Section titled “Choose what deserves to persist”Use Collections when the result is durable, reusable, large, file-like, or explicitly requested: a report, image, dataset, working document, saved response, interactive artifact, or site. Keep small status summaries, ordinary answers, and transient drafts inside the session.
The result stays connected to the work that created and validated it rather than becoming an unexplained download.
Understand what Collections keeps
Section titled “Understand what Collections keeps”A Collection item can carry:
- a title, description, type, tags, and collection membership;
- one or more representations, such as an original file, preview, or thumbnail;
- the project and source session that produced or imported it;
- a canonical or original URL when the material came from elsewhere;
- an editable working copy when the format supports it.
The Sites filter is part of this same library. A saved website does not need a separate project merely because it can be published.
Preserve one finished result
Section titled “Preserve one finished result”- Complete and validate the source output in its owning session.
- Decide whether the result should outlive the immediate conversation.
- Save or promote that one output into Collections.
- Open it beside the source session and inspect the preview and provenance.
- Add useful organization only when it helps you find or reuse the result later.
Ordinary file paths can stay lightweight until you deliberately open or promote them. This keeps Collections useful instead of filling it with build intermediates and test scratch files.
Reopen the source, not only the file
Section titled “Reopen the source, not only the file”When a saved result comes from an Axis session, use Open source session to return to the exact conversation that owns its decisions and validation. The output tells you what exists; the source session explains why it exists and what evidence supported it.
A copied or exported result does not silently update its source file. Revise through the owning project or session when the source should change, then save the updated result again.
Turn a saved website into a Site
Section titled “Turn a saved website into a Site”A publishable static website exposes the Axis hosting panel in its Collection detail. From there you can create a public or password-protected live URL and republish later updates without moving the item into another workspace.
Read Publish a site from work you already finished for the complete creation, review, access, publishing, update, and limit workflow.
Know the boundary
Section titled “Know the boundary”Saving is not validation, sharing, sending, or publishing. Collections preserves and organizes a result; it does not prove the result is correct or authorize an external side effect.
Do not promote credentials, private customer data, temporary build output, or files you do not have the right to keep. A public Site deserves a separate visitor-level review even when the saved Collection preview looked correct.
Related documentation
Section titled “Related documentation”Put this to work: Complete one mission, keep only its reviewable result, and use its provenance to return to the source when the next revision begins.