Settings

There are two main categories of settings for Dynamic Content.

• Global settings for dates and times, and content, which apply across all hubs
• Hub settings for defining values on a per hub basis, for example, locales and visualizations

Date and time settings

Choose "Date & time" from the settings menu to open the window from which you can:

• Set the date and time format to UK or US time and a 12 or 24 hour clock
• Add time zones and switch between them in the masthead

These are global settings which are applied across all your hubs.

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Date and time settings are stored locally with your browser, as a result of this:

• If you work in an incognito browser, closing the browser will lose your local date and time settings
• Having different accounts logged into separate browsers means you could have different settings for each
• An update to the browser could cause the settings to be lost from the browser local storage

Setting the date format

In the Date & time formats section you can choose to display dates in UK or US formats or use a 12 hour or 24 hour clock.

Adding and switching between time zones

By default when you view events and editions, the start and end date will be shown in the system time zone, that is the local time set on your computer. The system time will be displayed in the masthead unless you have selected another time zone.

To add a time zone choose "Add/remove time zones" from the menu or choose "Date and time" from the settings menu.

In the Date & time settings window, choose the "+" icon and click in the text box labelled "Enter a region, city or time zone". A list of available time zones is displayed showing the region and local time in that region. You can type a city or region name to narrow the selection.

Choose the time zone you want and click the "Save" button at the top of the window.

The time zone is now available in the time zones menu in the masthead and you can switch to a time zone by choosing it from the menu. In this example we'll choose the "New York" time zone.

The start and end times for editions that you view, edit or create will be displayed in the time of the time zone you have selected. The creation and modification date of content items in the production view are also shown in the time of the currently selected time zone.

Note that Dynamic Content uses UTC timestamps, all that you are doing when changing the current time zone is changing the offset in which dates and times are displayed in.

The start and end dates for the editions in the sale event are now shown in New York time.

With the New York time zone set, it's now easier for a UK based planner to create an edition to go live at 7PM New York time rather than having to do the time conversion manually.

Indicating the system time zone

If you have chosen a different time zone from the system time on your computer, then the system time zone is marked in the time zone menu with an icon. In the image below, the system time is set to the Europe/London time zone, but the current time zone is America/New_York.

The time zone list

The time zones shown in the menu are based on the tz database. So, for example for the Beijing timezone select Asia/Shanghai and for India use Asia/Kolkata.

Content settings

This setting changes whether collapsible fields are initially expanded or collapsed when authoring content items, and planning content items in slots in the editions section.

To set your preference for expanded or collapsed fields, from the “Settings” menu, choose “Content”. Then in the "Content" dialog, select how you want collapsible fields to be initially displayed and click "Save".

This setting controls your personal view of content items and is saved in local storage on your device. Your selection won’t remain in Incognito/Private mode or if you manually clear local storage.

If you select "Collapsible fields start collapsed", fields are always initially collapsed, as shown below. To expand and collapse individual fields use the arrows to the left of the field names.

Hub settings

Hub settings define values on a per hub basis. This section include Repository and Properties settings, for information about other hub settings, see:

• Locales
• Preview settings
• Adding and editing content statuses
• Visualization settings

Properties

The properties settings display the name and id of the selected hub and the GraphQL API endpoint.

Repository settings

The repository settings feature allows you to hide and show repositories and change the order in which they are displayed in the Content Library. The settings are applied per user, per hub, so any changes that one user makes to their repository settings will not affect other users on the same hub. The settings are persistent, so if you hide a repository and then log out, the repository will still be hidden when you log back in.

Hiding and showing repositories

To access repository settings choose "Repository" from the settings menu. You can also click on the "Repositories and folders" ellipsis (displayed on hover) on the left of the content library window and choose "Show and hide repositories".

The Repository settings window will be displayed, listing all the repositories that you have access to, together with the locales assigned to each one.

The id of each repository is also displayed to provide developers easy access to the id for use with the Dynamic Content Management API. You can copy the repository id by clicking the copy icon to the right of the id.

From the repository settings window you can choose to hide and show each repository by turning its check box on or off. Note that you must have at least one content and slot repository selected.

Hiding repositories allows you to focus on just those repositories you're working with. So, if you were working on German content, you might want to focus on just the content and slots for this locale and hide all the other repositories on the hub.

In example shown below, only the German Website and slots repository with a locale of de-DE assigned to it are selected.

When the settings are saved and you return to the Content Library, only the "German Website" repository and "Slots- DE" slots repository are displayed.

The repository settings also apply to the planning view, so in this example only slots in the "Slots- DE" repository will be available to add to editions.

Note that content and slots that were previously added to editions from repositories that are subsequently hidden will still be available.

To show repositories that you have previously chosen to hide, just go into repository settings.

Changing the order of repositories in the Content Library

You can also choose to change the order in which repositories are displayed in the Content Library by using the drag handle to move it to a new location in the list. So you could choose to move the "German website" repository to the top of the list so it's the first repository displayed in the Content Library.