Adding content to an edition
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On this page we'll walk you through adding content directly to an edition.
Adding content to editions
When you open an edition you'll now see two tabs: slots and content. From the slots tab you can add slots by dragging slots to the slots window and adding content to these slots. To add content directly to the edition, click the content tab.
If no content has been added to an edition, the empty state screen is shown and from here you can click "Add some content" to choose some content to add to the edition.
The content browser is shown and you add any of your content from the Content Library, including hierarchies. In this example we want to add the "Products" hierarchy to add some new pages to our site, so we'll choose this content and click the "+" icon.
Adding hierarchies
When you add a hierarchy node to an edition, you'll be asked if you want to add all the descendents as well. This is because a hierarchy is a collection of content items organized into a tree structure. In most cases we want to add all the items in the tree and in this example we're updating the entire site map to add some pages, so we'll click "Node and descendents" to add the whole tree.
The entire hierarchy has now been added to the edition, as shown in the image below.
When you click on a hierarchy item that's been added to an edition, the properties panel is shown on the right. In the "Snapshot contains" section the number of items in the hierarchy is displayed- in this case 10 items.
Adding other content
To add some more content click "Add content" and choose the content to add from the content browser.
We'll add a few more content items to the "November pop up edition", including a blog.
When you add content to an edition a content snapshot will be created. A snapshot represents the content item exactly as it appears at the point it was added to the edition. This ensures that the content that is published on the edition start date is exactly the version of the content that you added to the edition.
In the example shown below there are 3 content snapshots.
When you click on a snapshot, the properties window on the right will show more information about the content item from which it was created and you can click the content item link to open the content item in the Content Library.
When you've added all your content, directly to the edition or in slots, click "Schedule" to schedule the edition to go live on the edition start date. Your content will be published on the start date and available in your website or app. See scheduling an edition to follow that step.
Adding content to an edition from the content form
You can also add content to an edition from the content form.
The example below shows a "Great looks for winter" banner. An edition has already been set up, ready to add the content for our winter collection. All you need to do is select "Add to edition" from the Save menu in the content form and choose the edition to which to add the content.
From the "Add to edition" dialog, choose the event, the edition within the event and you can add a comment as a guide for your content planners. In this example the content item is added to the "Winter collection launch promo" within the "Winter collection launch" event.
Click the "Add to edition" button to add the content.
The content is now added to the "Winter collection launch promo" edition and a confirmation message is displayed. Clicking the "Go to edition" will open the edition.
The edition is displayed and now contains the "Great looks for winter" banner.
You can use "Add to edition" to add content to as many editions as you'd like.
Adding content to an edition from the content library
You can also add content to an edition from the content library.
In the example below we want to add the "Spring special carousel" to an edition to use in an upcoming promotion. To add the content to an edition, right click on the item's card and choose "Add to edition" from the menu.
From the "Add to edition" dialog, choose the event, the edition within the event and you can add a comment as a guide for your content planners. In this example the content item is added to the "Get ready for Spring promo" edition within "The Spring event".
Click the "Add to edition" button to add the content.
The content is now added to the "Get ready for Spring promo" edition and a confirmation message is displayed. Clicking the "Go to edition" link will open the edition.
The edition is displayed and now contains the "Spring special carousel" content item, alongside other content that was added previously.
Tag a snapshot to an edition from the content form
If you want to ensure that a specific version of a content item is available to add to an edition, you can tag a snapshot of this content to an edition from the content form in the content production view. This will create a snapshot of the content item at the point it was saved and make it available via the snapshot tab of the content browser. There may be multiple snapshots of the same content item available to the planner and they can choose which version to add to the edition.
This feature is useful if you want to make a specific version of a content item available to add to slots and editions. It makes it easy to work with multiple versions of the same content.
Choose "Tag snapshot to edition" to start creating a snapshot.
Select the event and edition to tag this content with. In the example below, the content is tagged to the "January sale edition".
The snapshot of the "Winter sale banner" is now tagged to the "January sale edition" (1 in the image below), making it easy to find the right snapshot to add to a slot or directly to an edition. This snapshot represents the specific version of the "Winter sale banner" that we saved. If we made a change to the banner, then we could choose "Tag snapshot to edition" again to tag the newer version of the content.
Snapshots can be added to multiple editions, tagging content to an edition is just a convenience to make the snapshot easier to find.
Note that tagging a snapshot to an edition is not supported for hierarchies, although you can tag a snapshot of a single content item that is part of a hierarchy. You can add a hierarchy to an edition from the Content Library, as explained in the section below.
Adding a hierarchy to an edition from the Content Library
You can also add a hierarchy to an edition directly from the Content Library. With the hierarchy open, right click on the node you want to add and choose "Add to edition". In the example shown below we're adding the root of the hierarchy.
From the dialog choose the edition to which you want to add the hierarchy. You can choose whether to add the selected node or all its descendents. In this example we want to add all its descendents as well.
When the hierarchy has been added to the edition a confirmation message is displayed. Click "Go to edition" to open the edition window.
The edition window is opened and contains the hierarchy that was just added.
Concepts: what are content snapshots?
Snapshots
When you add content to an edition what you are actually adding is a "snapshot" of this content. A snapshot is a representation of a content item exactly as it appears at the point when it was added to the edition. By creating snapshots, Dynamic Content allows planners to be certain that the content, including any linked items, or hierarchies, they schedule is exactly the version of the content that will appear when the edition goes live.
If the content item is subsequently updated and the planner wants to use the latest version, they will need to add the updated content item in the edition.