How to compare Authoring & already promoted Live content? - Endeca Experience Manager

Currently there is no tool in Endeca to compare content between Authoring & Live instance.
Here is the workaround options:

Download content from Authoring Instance:  
http://localhost:8006/ifcr/sites/CRS.all.zip

Download content from already promoted Live Instance:
http://localhost:8006/ifcr/sites-live/CRS.all.zip 
 OR   
opt/app/endeca/MDEX/6.5.1/bin>export_config.sh host port (Live Dgraph host and port values ) 

Endeca Experience Manager - Preview & Audit Workflow

Endeca OOTB Preview Workflow steps:

     1)  BCC Merchandiser will change the content(Category/Product/SKU etc..) and push it to the Stage workflow 

     2)  BCC Merchandiser use workflow and push content from Stage to Production

     3)  Run Endeca Index. It can be kicked off in two ways  

                       - On BCC project deployment

                       - Scheduled indexing (http://ravihonakamble.blogspot.com/2015/07/how-to-schedule-endeca-index-using-atg.html)

     4) An Authoring MDEX, where Workbench users preview & Audit their Experience Manager content, Thesaurus, etc. 

     5) Validate content on Stage Preview ATG Store instance pointing at Authoring MDEX

     6) Promotion process from Authoring to Live/Production MDEX takes place when you run the /opt/app/endeca/apps/APPNAME/control/promote_content.sh shell script
  7) Endeca XM Content available to the Live user through ATG Live Store  instances

Here is the Endeca Content promotion flow diagram from Oracle:

How to set priority for Endeca Experience Manager pages? - Endeca Workbench

Priority is the order of page execution. If none of the search terms or refinements matches, then default rule will trigger. New pages must have a priority defined.

The Homepage should ALWAYS be priority 1 and default page should be the last priority. 

Go to Endeca Admin Console > Scripts and Promote changes to the web
 

If Default rule is not defined then you will see exceptions in JBOSS log - http://ravihonakamble.blogspot.com/2015/07/jboss-log-file-fills-in-gb-with.html

How to activate/deactivate Endeca Experience Manager pages? - Endeca Workbench

Activating and Deactivating pages turn the pages on or off.
To activate/deactivate page follow below steps:

1.       Go to the page that needs to be activated or deactivated

2.      Click ‘Activate/Deactivate’ in the Action column and save changes

3.       Go to Endeca Admin Console > Scripts and Promote changes to the web