Gutter Settings
You can configure the Content Editor's gutter to show the status of items on your site that are:
- locked by you or another user
- in a draft or review workflow state
- unpublished
In this example, looking in the left margin of the content editor window shows that one item is locked and another is in the draft state:
Configure Sitecore Gutter to show locked, draft, or unpublished items
It is easy to configure Sitecore to display these icons. To set it up, just right-click in the left margin of the page which will cause a small dialog box to appear. Inside the dialog box, click on the items you want to turn on:
It is strongly recommended to NOT turn on flags for "Broken Links," "Missing Versions," or "Validation Rules." Doing so puts an extra load on the server and will greatly slow down your page refresh times in the Sitecore editor.