Yeah, this is something that should be addressed, as there is no way to reach private docs parts.
The same thing has just happened to me.
I have spent a day creating a document but did not really want front-end users seeing it until it was complete – set it to Private – now it has disappeared??!? Vexing.
The issue mentioned here is valid. But this is how WordPress works. Every section and docs in weDocs has parent/child relationship and that’s how it maintains the relation when showing. Also, managing the relationship is done by WordPress.
So when you set a parent item in draft/pending mode, it can’t have any child element. So if you have a section in draft mode, it cannot have a child doc and you won’t see that in the sidebar (http://tareq.in/kKJPSw). When you update, it falls back to another parent and the result becomes unexpected. There’s not much I can do about it.
I hope the explanation makes sense.
