I’m working with Make.com (Integromat) to sync my Airtable base with Webflow. I’m searching for a way to unpublish or set to draft a specific item. Unfortunately there is no module for this, but there is a module called “Delete an item”.
The problem: You need to set a second module to “Publish” the whole site to see the changes in production, which means that if you have several changes, the site will be published multiple times + you have the risk that things publish that you still don’t want to publish.
Is there a more elegant solution to this? Anyone with some knowledge?
When working with Webflow Collections, you can instantly unpublish individual items without requiring a full site publish. Simply select the item you want to unpublish in your Collections panel, click the status toggle, and change it to Draft. The item will be immediately removed from your live site.
For automation workflows with Make.com or Airtable, you can utilize Webflow’s API endpoints to manage collection items programmatically. The Collection Items API allows you to update item status through integrations while maintaining the immediate unpublishing behavior.
Hopefully this helps! If you still need assistance, please reply here so somebody from the community can help.
If you use Whalesync instead of Make to sync Airtable with Webflow, you can then use our Webflow Status Field feature to control the status of each individual item (e.g. “Active”, “Draft”, or “Archived”).
Separate from switching to Whalesync, we also shared a free Airtable script you can use to click “publish my Webflow site” from within Airtable.
That second script doesn’t solve the underlying problem of Make’s limitation here, but does make it a little easier to publish Webflow directly from Airtable.