Netlify

Connect Netlify and Viro can put a web page it built for you online, at an address of its own on your Netlify account. It can also tell you what's deployed on your sites, why a deploy failed, and what came in through your forms, and it can roll a site back, redeploy it, or rename it. Every publish or change is shown on a card first, and nothing happens on Netlify until you confirm.

• Publish a web page Viro built in chat as a new site on your Netlify account, after you confirm
• Update a site with a new version of the page, after you confirm
• List your sites with their addresses, and a site's recent deploys with their status
• Tell you why a deploy failed, using Netlify's own error
• Tell you whether a site is open to everyone or kept private by Netlify
• Show the latest things visitors sent through a site's forms
• Bring an earlier version of a site back, after you confirm
• Redeploy a site that builds from a repository, or stop a deploy that's still running, after you confirm
• Rename a site, which changes its netlify.app address, after you confirm

Viro can't:

• Delete a site or a deploy
• Read or change environment variables
• Add or change domains or DNS
• Change who can open a site. You set that in Netlify
• Publish anything other than a web page built in chat. A design made in Design Studio has its own Publish button

1. 1

   Open Customize > Connectors

   Select Customize in the sidebar, then Connectors.
2. 2

   Open Netlify and select Connect to Viro

   A Connect Netlify window opens.
3. 3

   Approve Viro at Netlify

   Select Approve at Netlify. Netlify opens in a new tab. Sign in and select Authorize.
4. 4

   Come back to Viro

   The window finishes by itself once you've approved, and Netlify is listed under Yours. If it runs out of time, start again.

Once it's connected, just ask in any chat. For example:

• "Build a landing page for my bakery, then publish it to Netlify."
• "Publish this page to Netlify."
• "I changed the headline. Publish the new version."
• "Why did my last deploy fail?"
• "What came in through my contact form?"
• "Roll my site back to the previous version."
• "Rename my site to spring-sale."

Ask Viro to build a web page, then ask it to publish the page to Netlify. Viro shows a card, Publish to Netlify, with the page and the address it will have. Select Publish site. When the page is up, the card says Published and has an Open site button.

The site gets a name of its own, taken from the page's title, and an address that ends in .netlify.app. To choose the name, tell Viro, for example "publish it as spring-sale". If the page uses a file that exists only in your Viro account, the card warns you that it won't load on the published page.

Ask Viro to change the page, then ask it to publish again. The new version goes to the same site, at the same address. A page is published as it is when you confirm, so later changes aren't online until you publish again.

When a publish replaces a site that's already live, the card is headed Update your site on Netlify and says so. Netlify keeps the version that was live, and Viro can bring it back.

Netlify decides who can open a site, and on newer Netlify accounts a new site starts private. Only people signed in to your Netlify team can open it. Everyone else is asked to sign in to Netlify instead of seeing your page. You can open it yourself because you're signed in.

After a publish, Viro checks. If the site isn't open to everyone, the finished card says so and has a Make it public in Netlify button. It opens the site's Project visibility setting in Netlify, where you choose Public. Viro can't change this setting for you. To make every new site public from the start, change Default project visibility in your Netlify team settings, under General > Visitor access.

No. Viro shows a card with exactly what it will do, marked Needs your OK. Nothing happens on Netlify until you select the card's button: Publish site, Restore version, Redeploy site, Stop deploy, or Rename site. Select Cancel to drop it.

Yes. Netlify keeps a site's earlier versions. Ask Viro to roll the site back, and it shows a card with the version it will bring back. Select Restore version. The version that was live is kept too, so you can switch back the same way.

Viro can't take a site offline or delete it. Delete a site in Netlify.

The site's netlify.app address changes with its name, and the old address stops working. The card warns you before you confirm. A name that another Netlify site already uses can't be taken.

Netlify's approval covers your whole account. It doesn't offer a narrower one. Viro stores the access encrypted and uses it only for what's listed on this page. It never reads environment variables.

If you remove Viro AI under Applications in your Netlify user settings, Netlify's page in Customize > Connectors shows Reconnect needed. Connect it again.

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