Since I'm not able to reach my databases right know, I can't give you the correct table, but my guess is you need to edit the 'pages' table and find an attribute named something like 'approved' for the page and change that from 1 to 0.

There is no way to unapprove a page through the ui if you don't have other versions of that page.

Try setting advanced permission and then setting permissions so that only certain groups can view the page.

best wishes,
Danny
Concrete5 Team

My first answer was for setting your page un-approved in some way.

The fix Danny has for you will make it unreachable for all users not in the assigned group, which in fact is better than my solution since you don't risk screwing your db.

A third alternative might be to exclude the page from nav. Then a user needs to know the exact url to find the page unless you have linked to it from somewhere.

OK... so, effectively, "No". LOL! Sounds like it's easier to just delete the page and re-create it without publishing.

Not a huge deal... but good to be aware of.

Thanks!

Nope sorry but as said above you can change the permission of the page so that is it not visible to the public, you do not need to have special permissions enabled for this.

Just go to the page(or sitemap) and select permissions, choose manual, and de-select public

You may need to add the exclude from nav attribute, to prevent it appearing in navigation links, or the exlcude from page list if yuo do not want it appearing there either.

You can delete the page but changing the permission is quite a nice way of getting the page ready before showing it live then you can just remove the attributes and change the permissions to public.