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When you are not in the Edit mode, what you see in the Workspace is precisely how your content appears to website visitors on the frontend. When you are in Edit mode, the Editor toolbar appears which contains formatting options for rich text along with the Link, Insert and Insert Personalization options which you can use to create hyperlinks and , add content elements to a content item .and personalize content.

See also Keyboard Shortcuts for operations you can perform in the Editor using just the keyboard.

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Working in the Editor

The XperienCentral Editor is where you enter content for a content item. You can enter two forms of content: rich text and content elements. Rich text is text that you can enter directly onto the content item, just as in a word processor. You can format the content as bold, italic, underline, and so forth. Content elements, on the other hand, are containers that display special content such as images, interactive forms, calendars, and so forth. The Editor shows the layout of content in WYSIWYG fashion which means that how the content appears in the Editor is exactly how it appears to website visitors on the frontend.

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1. Double-click in the body of the content item or hover the mouse over the title of the content item until the Title Bar appears and then click [Edit]:
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   The Editor is now active: The Editor formatting options and the Insert menu now appear along the top of the Editor:
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2. Click on the part of the content item where you want to add content. This can be anywhere on the content item — the title bar, in existing rich text, on a blank spot, and between content elements. A blue cursor indicator appears which shows you where you can add contentthe focus is. For example:
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Click the cursor indicator. The cursor in the Editor now appears in that location. You can now enter content .
   
3. When you are finished adding or modifying the content, click [Save].

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Entering Rich Text

Rich text is text that is directly typed onto a page, page section, or article. Rich text is not part of a content element. It can be added anywhere, also between content elements. The rich text that you enter in the Editor can be formatted using standard formatting such as bold, italic, etc., and you can also select HTML tags for it such as "Heading 1", "Heading 2" and so forth.

To enter rich text in the Editor:

1. Double-click in the body of the content item in the Editor or hover the mouse over the title of the page in the Workspace until the Title Bar appears and then click [Edit]. The Editor is now active: The Editor formatting options and the Insert menu now appear along the top of the Editor.
2. Click on the part of the content item where you want to add rich text. This can be anywhere on the content item — in existing rich text, on a blank spot, and between elements.
3. Type the text you want to add or modify the text you want to change or delete. You can use the Bold, Italic, Underline, and Strikethrough formatting as well as the HTML formatting from the drop-down list in the upper left part of the Editor menu. When you select HTML formatting from the drop-down list, it will be applied to the entire continuous text that is not separated by a hard return.
4. When you are finished adding or modifying the rich text, click [Save].

Support for Input Method Editors (IMEs)

The XperienCentral Editor supports the input of characters (Japanese, Chinese, Cyrillic and so forth) from IMEs. You can add characters from an IME in the following places:

• Rich text in the Editor
• List element (including the title)
• Paragraph element (including the title)
• Table element (including the title)
• WYSISYG element (including the title)

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Adding Content Elements

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At the top of the menu, the "Image" and "Link" content elements are always on top. The five content elements that appear below the separator are the ones that you have most recently added. When you click "More...", the full collection of content elements available to you are shown:

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Adding Links

Hyperlinks allow website visitors to navigate to other parts of a website or an external URL from a page, page section or article. You can turn rich text into a link quickly and easily in the Editor. Text within other content elements cannot be turned into a hyperlink.

Follow these steps:

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Content Link

1. In the "Link Text" text field, enter the text that displays for the link.
2. In the "Content" field, type a full or partial string to search for the content item to which you want to link.
3. Select the content item from the list of items found. If the content item you are searching for was not found, click Advanced Search to conduct a more thorough search based on content item metadata.
4. Select the link behavior from the "Link Behavior" drop-down list.
5. Click [Apply]. The text in the content item changes color and is underlined (according to your corporate style).
6. Continue editing the content or click [Save] to save the change(s).

Web Link

A web link is a link to a URL external to your XperienCentral website. A web link can be embedded in a content item which means that the website visitor sees a compact version of the content within XperienCentral. When you embed content, keep in mind that there is a minimum width required in order to show the embedded content, therefore it might not be possible to embed content in some content items, for example in a page section, if there is not enough room. XperienCentral tries to make the embedded content fit automatically based on the size of the area in which the content is embedded.

At this time, XperienCentral supports content embedding for the following social media:

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• Dailymotion
• Hulu
• Vine
• Instagram
• Flickr
• SlideShare
• Spotify
• SoundCloud
• Twitter
• Ted (talks)
• Scribd

 
To add a web link, follow these steps:

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2. When you are finished adding or modifying the content, click [Save].

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Known Issues

This section describes known issues that may affect your experience working in the XperienCentral Editor.

Drag to scroll does not work in Firefox

Using the web browsers Internet Explorer and Edge and/or Chrome, you can drag an item to the bottom of the window and the content scrolls up which allows you to drag the item below the visible area. Firefox does not natively support this browser feature, however, an add-on is available from Mozilla that adds this functionality. You can download the add-on from the following URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/drag-to-scroll-reloaded/.

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