Content templates

Your publication's style guide may require that articles about product updates always include boilerplate text as follows:

• Headlines start with the teaser Feature update:.
• Bodies start with Introducing another Brightspot productivity booster:.

The editor covering product updates can start new articles by manually pasting the boilerplate text, or by copying a previous article and erasing the extraneous text. A better way is to use content templates. Using content templates, editors can pre-populate the content edit form with boilerplate text.

Referring to the previous illustration, when an editor starts a new article to which a content template has been applied—

1. Brightspot displays the content edit form for articles.
2. The Headline field is therefore populated with the phrase Feature review:.
3. The Subheadline field is therefore populated with the phrase Introducing another Brightspot productivity feature:.
4. The Authors field is therefore populated with Adam Braun.

Using content templates provides two benefits:

• Consistency—Your assets acquire a consistent wording that your visitors expect.
• Productivity—Because Brightspot pre-populates the content edit form with template text, you spend less time typing and more time creating.

For more information on content templates, see Types of content templates and Organizing content templates. To begin creating content templates, see any of the following topics:

• Creating a site-level content template
• Creating a role-level content template
• Creating a user-level content template