# Publishing Options for Your Experiences

### Publishing options for experiences

An experience's Publishing options panel allows you to define who can visit the experience, and allows you to enter the experience's [Codex](https://docs.sansar.com/latest/exploring-in-sansar/navigateandexplore/codex) listing information.

### Opening the Publishing options panel

The Publishing options panel can be opened from two locations:

### From the My Experiences panel

1. While in the [Atlas app](https://help.sansar.com/hc/en-us/articles/223833727), click **Create** to open the My Experiences panel. You may also access **My Experiences** from the App Launcher while visiting or editing an experience.
2. Under your chosen experience in the My Experiences panel, click the **Publishing options** ![Publishing\_options\_button.png](https://i3.wp.com/help.sansar.com/hc/article_attachments/360000730086/Publishing_options_button.png) button.

### While editing an experience

When editing an experience, click the **Publish** button on the toolbar to open the Publishing options panel.

| ![Publish\_button.png](https://i3.wp.com/help.sansar.com/hc/article_attachments/360000730126/Publish_button.png) |
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| Click the **Publish** button to open the Publishing options panel.                                               |

## The Publishing options panel

The Publishing options panel contains two tabs: **Who can visit** and **Atlas listing**. Each panel contains important settings that allow you to control access to your experience and help others find it, respectively.

### Who can visit

| [![Publishing\_options\_-\_Who\_can\_visit.png](https://i3.wp.com/help.sansar.com/hc/article_attachments/360000721403/Publishing_options_-_Who_can_visit.png)](https://help.sansar.com/hc/article_attachments/360000721403/Publishing_options_-_Who_can_visit.png) |
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| The **Who can visit** tab of the Publishing options panel.                                                                                                                                                                                                         |

The **Who can visit** tab allows you to control who is allowed to visit your experience. The dropdown menu allows you to choose from the following options:

* **Everyone** - Anyone can visit the experience, as long as they have not been banned.
* **Only the following** - Allows you to select the checkboxes next to **Friends** and [**Guest list**](#Editing-the-guest-list-and-banned-list) to allow your friends or specifically allowed guests, respectively.
* **Only me** - Only you are allowed to visit the experience.

[Banned users](https://help.sansar.com/knowledge/articles/360000312623/en-us?brand_id=1004727#Editing-the-guest-list-and-banned-list), defined in the list your provide, are never allowed to visit your experience.

| [![Jeremy\_s\_workshop\_-\_private.png](https://i3.wp.com/help.sansar.com/hc/article_attachments/360000730046/Jeremy_s_workshop_-_private.png)](https://help.sansar.com/hc/article_attachments/360000730046/Jeremy_s_workshop_-_private.png) |
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| If you have set your experience to only allow **Friends** or a **Guest list**, an icon appears on the experience's Atlas image to indicate that the experience is open to Friends or guests only.                                            |

### Editing the guest list and banned list

To add someone to the guest list or banned list:

1. Click **Edit list** next to **Guest list** or **Banned users are never allowed to visit**.
2. In the Edit Guest List or Edit Ban List panel, click **Add**.
3. In the Add Someone panel, type the user's full \[Avatar ID]) and click **Search**.
4. Select a name from the search results and click **Add selected**.
5. Repeat as many times as you like until all guests or banned users are added.
6. Click **Done** to close the Add Someone panel.
7. Click **Save** to save your list and close the Edit Guest List or Edit Ban List panel.

To remove someone from the guest list or banned list:

1. Click **Edit list** next to **Guest list** or **Banned users are never allowed to visit**.
2. In the Edit Guest List or Edit Ban List panel, select a name and click **Remove**.
3. Click **Save** to save your list and close the Edit Guest List or Edit Ban List panel.

### Atlas listing information

| [![Publishing\_options\_-\_Atlas\_listing.png](https://i3.wp.com/help.sansar.com/hc/article_attachments/360000730106/Publishing_options_-_Atlas_listing.png)](https://help.sansar.com/hc/article_attachments/360000730106/Publishing_options_-_Atlas_listing.png) |
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| The **Atlas listing** tab of the Publishing options panel.                                                                                                                                                                                                        |

The **Atlas listing** tab allows you to name your experience and provide a brief description and image for the [Codex](https://docs.sansar.com/latest/exploring-in-sansar/navigateandexplore/codex). On this tab, you can provide the following listing information:

* **Hide this experience from the Atlas** - If selected, this experience does not appear in the [Codex](https://docs.sansar.com/latest/exploring-in-sansar/navigateandexplore/codex). Depending upon the options you selected on the **Who can visit** tab, you can still invite users to your experience by providing them with a [direct URL](https://help.sansar.com/hc/en-us/articles/223833727).
* **Experience name** - Choose an appropriate name for your experience. Note that changing this name also changes the experience's URL, which can cause the previous URL to stop working. However, [changing the name of the scene](https://docs.sansar.com/latest/creating-in-sansar/managing-worlds/renaming-a-scene) that the experience is linked to does not change the URL.
* **Description (required if published in Atlas)** - Enter a brief description of the experience in the Description field. If you wish to include any tags, such as "Work in progress" or a last-updated timestamp, we recommend placing them in the description rather than the title. That way, when a tag is removed or changed the experience URL is unaffected.
* **Image (required if published in Atlas)** - Select an appropriate image to represent your experience and draw the attention of potential visitors. Make sure to follow the guidelines set forth in the [Atlas Publishing Guidelines](https://help.sansar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001835703-Atlas-Listing-Guidelines#atlas%image).