UVE Future Time Machine

Description

Future Time Machine lets teams see the future of their site—before it happens. It allows users to preview pages exactly as they will appear on any chosen future date and time, taking into account all scheduled publishes, expirations, and content changes. Instead of guessing how a page will look when schedules kick in, teams can verify it visually and confidently in advance.

Built directly into the Universal Visual Editor (UVE), Future Time Machine works across both traditional dotCMS pages and headless experiences. With a simple calendar-based control, users select a future moment and the page instantly updates to reflect the precise content state at that point in time. What you see is what your visitors will see—no simulations, no assumptions.

Benefits

For Content & Marketing Teams

• Validate upcoming content changes before they go live and catch issues early.

• Preview pages across multiple future dates to ensure campaigns, promotions, and seasonal updates display as expected.

• Coordinate complex publishing schedules with confidence and clarity.

• Reduce last-minute fixes and launch-day surprises.

For Developers

• Works seamlessly with headless front ends through standard UVE and SDK integrations.

• Requires no custom implementation or environment cloning to support future previews.

• Maintains a single, accurate source of truth for content scheduling.

Use Cases

Campaign & Promotion Planning
A marketing team previews a holiday campaign at each scheduled milestone to ensure the right content appears at the right time.

Content Expiration Validation
Teams preview the site after promotions or time-sensitive content expire to confirm fallback messaging and layouts behave correctly.

Global & Multi-Market Launches
Organizations launching content across regions with different go-live dates use Future Time Machine to verify each market’s experience before launch.

Resources

• Future Time Machine Blog Post

• Future Time Machine Documentation