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title: "Publish a snapshot of a document"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/AHP/2229274320/Publish%20a%20snapshot%20of%20a%20document"
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Snapshot Publishing includes **Collections**, purpose-built snapshot document repositories that make it easier to distribute FAQs, policies, and other documentation.

> ℹ️ Confluence macros like **Jira Issues**, **Excerpt Include,** or **Metadata**, that display live content, are frozen on each snapshot document version.

To use snapshot publishing, a space administrator must

- [Set up snapshot publishing](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/649530532) in a space using the space snapshot publishing dashboard
- [Add collections](/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/615023610) to the space or [link collections](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/650348255) to the space created in other spaces

![image](media://e3f59329-719f-4a4e-a87e-2638f850f682)

A collection is managed by the space administrators who created it - the [collection manager](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/649531257). The collection manager adds users who can contribute a snapshot to the collection and users who can view the collection snapshots.

[Page editors can be given contributor permission to each collection](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/650152994), allowing them to add snapshots of Confluence documents to that collection.

Each collection can be configured to add [users who can view the collection](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/649825986).  Users can view collections using the [collections global viewer](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/650119475).

![image](media://75fd0c58-769f-4cd2-a27c-9ff69cf843f5)

> ✅ Snapshots viewed in the [collections viewer](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/650119475) can be toggled between HTML and PDF format.

Snapshot publishing is used to

- Build and manage **Collections** by document type and user permissions, *not the document source space user permissions*
- Publish the snapshot of
  - One page to many **Collections**
  - Many pages to one **Collection**
- Display page metadata
- Manage snapshot document version control
- Access previous snapshot document versions
- Work seamlessly with Comala Document Management to create versioned snapshot documents using the **snapshot-page macro** in a workflow trigger

### Snapshot Publishing - useful pages

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