# Publish and set your care flow live
URL: https://docs.awellhealth.com/docs/design-care-flows/publish-set-your-care-flow-live

> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.awellhealth.com/llms.txt).





Publishing and going live are two separate actions.

* **Publishing** records a version of the care flow without affecting any patient.
* **Setting a version live** makes it the version new patients are enrolled into.

## Publish, then set live [#publish-then-set-live]

1. Open the care flow to publish.
2. Click **Publish care flow** at the top right.
   * Optionally add **publication comments** to record what changed in this version.
   * Optionally review the list of changes in this version.
3. Click **Publish**.
4. Go to the **Versions** tab and choose **Set as live version**.

<img alt="Publishing a new version, with a note describing what changed, and the publish menu offering Publish and Set Live, Publish only, or Promote to production" src="__img0" />

Write the publication comment, because six versions later it's the only record of why this version
exists.

## Publishing runs checks first, and errors block it [#publishing-runs-checks-first-and-errors-block-it]

The error message names what's wrong. Fix it and publish again.

## Any published version can be set live again [#any-published-version-can-be-set-live-again]

The **Versions** tab lists every published version, and the live version can change at any time.
Rolling back means setting an earlier version live again.

Patients already enrolled continue on the version they started on. Changing the live version affects
new enrollments, not people mid-flow, so a bad change is recoverable without stranding anyone.

## Next steps [#next-steps]

**Next:** [Sandbox to production promotion](/docs/design-care-flows/sandbox-production-promotion) for
organizations that build in one environment and run in another.