# What happened to "Preview" function?

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-happened-to-preview-function/10866>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [November 3, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-happened-to-preview-function/10866 "2016-11-03T20:53:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jaden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@Jaden](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Jaden)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-happened-to-preview-function/10866/1 "2016-11-03T20:53:58Z")

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I’m using Rw 7.1.7 and when I try to preview a page, It comes up with a window shown below;

![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/2X/a/ab9384c8ec8ce6002bc272dcb50d372f3c34d5c4.png)

But for some reason, it comes up with another window, informing me that it is doing the same thing to my home page!  
I never wanted to preview my home page, just the sales & service page. What is maddening is that once it finishes ‘exporting’. (I just want to preview it not export it - Was never a problem in RW6!), it is stuck on the home page. I won’t let me preview the page I want. It keeps going back and exporting both pages but ends up previewing on my home page, which is not what I want. Please fix this!

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**Author:** ![robbeattie](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/robbeattie/32/78_2.png) [@robbeattie](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/robbeattie)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 8:18am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-happened-to-preview-function/10866/2 "2016-11-04T08:18:28Z")

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I’m afraid this sounds like one of the many miscellaneous publishing/export problems with RW7.

Your best bet is to submit a crash report to RealMac with your OS version, RW version, steps that reproduce the problem etc. and see if they can troubleshoot you out of the problem.

Rob

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**Author:** ![isaiah](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/isaiah/32/93_2.png) [@isaiah](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/isaiah)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-happened-to-preview-function/10866/3 "2016-11-04T14:00:32Z")

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I suspect this is a repeat-export issue I reported a while back. I know RMS has been working on it.

If it is, it’s related to a broken URL on that particular page. This could be from a missing resource on your site. An image that you’ve removed. Or any other type of published content.

If you can find the broken link/URL/content/resource and remove it temporarily it will likely work around the issue until it’s solved.

If you’re using Stacks it could also be related to a 3rd party stack doing something similar. You can try removing each stack on the page in turn (or in groups) to see if you can hunt it down.

Isaiah

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**Author:** ![Jaden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@Jaden](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Jaden)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-happened-to-preview-function/10866/4 "2016-11-05T16:04:55Z")

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Thanks All. I haven’t had time for forums or to bother tinkering around with RW7. I hadn’t realized RW7 was still riddled with so many issues. Guess I’ll have to go back to RW6.  
sigh.