Content Placeholders can be used to give new workspaces a more user-friendly UI to guide users where they can start to add content. This feature is best used alongside Quick Add It and is by far the most useful for new workspaces as the placeholders are only shown when there is no other content.
It is usually not worth configuring this feature for existing workspaces that already have content as the placeholders will never be shown when content is available.
If you are using ConneX Studio templating for workspaces this feature is highly recommended as part of your custom templates so that new workspaces look less empty and provide signposting to show where content can be added.
In this article:
- Configure placeholders for a web part
- Configure Quick Add It
- Create a template of your configured workspace
- Still need help?
Configure placeholders for a web part
To get started, navigate to the workspace you're building for your template source and go to the page with the In Focus web part you want to use placeholders for.
- Edit the In Focus web part and go to page 3 of 3 in the confuguration panel. Scroll down to the Template options and turn on Show placeholder card if no result:
- You will see the web part now showing a default "Document" placeholder image:
- To change this, click the Browse image button and choose a new image. Please consider that this image should be a low file size to ensure there is no performance impact.
If you would like some default Atlas placeholders created in your brand colours please get in touch with your project team and our UX team can provide them. - Next, under the image in the configuration panel click Customise labels to add a title and label to the placeholders:
- Click in the Label dropdown and choose one of the options to configure:
- In the Localized values column, click the Edit button. Choose the Language (if your system is monolingual you can just set the Default) and type the label to display:
- Click Add and save. Back on the Customize labels panel click the + on the far right to add a new line, and configure the second option (title or label) that you didn't already configure. You should end up with something like this:
- Click Add and save to finish the configuration. On the web part you'll now see the labels you configured:
Configure Quick Add It
This setup for a new workspace is significantly enhanced by configuring Quick Add It for any web parts using placeholders. Please follow the instructions in the following link to configure this:
Once configured you'll have a web part looking something like this:
Bear in mind that the first tile for the Quick Add It functionality is based on your Atlas theme colour.
Create a template of your configured workspace
Once you have this set up for all the web parts on your Landing Page for example and configured any other features for this workspace, you can now create a ConneX Studio template. All workspaces created from this template will include all these features configured as you have configured them here so this work will not need to be done on every workspace and will save a lot of time.
ConneX Studio is covered in the following articles:
- Create custom workspace templates using ConneX Studio
- Configure a workspace to be used as a template in ConneX Studio
Still need help?
If you're having trouble with any of these features please contact your CSM or raise a support ticket and we will do our best to assist you.
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