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Managing Clips

Ever needed to use the same text or HTML in multiple articles? We got you. Clips lets you do just that. You can even have article content live-update everywhere when you edit the Clip.

Taylor Sloane
Updated by Taylor Sloane

Ever needed to use the same text or HTML in multiple articles? We got you. Clips lets you do just that.

Clips can be static or dynamic. A Static Clip will be inserted into your article once and will not be updated when you update the Clip itself. A Dynamic Clip will be update in the article when you update the Clip.

Accessing Clips

  1. You can access Clips from the sidebar under Clips (or click here)
  2. From here you can select a Clip from the list

Easy as that!

Clip Features Based on User Role

Different members of your team will have different Clips permissions based on their user role. Here's a breakdown of the Clip features each user role has access to.

Clip Feature

Read-only

Writer

Editor

Administrator

Owner

View Clips

-

Create Clips

-

Lock Clips

-

Share Clips with Team

-

-

Unlock others' locked Clips

-

-

-

Creating a New Clip

  1. Head to Clips from the sidebar
  2. Click + New Clip
  3. Add your title and content
  4. Hit Save

Inserting a Clip

Once you've created your Clip you'll obviously wanna use it over and over again. Here's how it's done.

  1. Head to your article
  2. Click the 📎 Clips button in the toolbar
  3. Search for your Clip and select the result
  4. Insert your Clip:
    1. The Insert button will insert the Clip statically. If you make updates to the Clip after this they will not be updated in the article.
    2. The Insert dynamic button will insert the Clip dynamically. Any updates you make in Clips will also be updated in all articles you've used the dynamic Clip.
  5. Your Clip will be inserted into your article 🎉

Deleting a Clip

  1. Head to Clips
  2. Select the Clip you wanna delete
  3. Click the ⋮ More button
  4. Click Remove and confirm

Team Sharing Options

You can have private, shared, or locked Clips based on your sharing access settings.

  1. Head to Clips
  2. Select the Clip you wanna edit
  3. Share or Lock your Clip

Editing the sharing settings changes who on your team can see or edit your Clip. Here's what the combination of sharing access settings mean:

Sharing options selected

Who can access your Clip

None

Only you can edit and see your Clip

Share with team

Editors and Administrators can edit and see your Clip

Share with team & Lock Clip

Editors can see your Clip

Administrators can edit and see your Clip

When to Use Clips

There's a few main use cases for Clips. 

  1. Complicated HTML blocks that you can use to add functionality
    This is great if you have an HTML block that's complicated and you don't wanna recreate it each time. Also useful if you have something you use all the time.
  2. Entire article templates
    Make the same kinda article a lot? Create a template of it in Clips and reuse to your heart's content. This is great for FAQ templates or other structured content.
  3. Sections of content you'd like to use in multiple articles
    If you insert a Dynamic Clip, any changes you make in Clips will be reflected in the Clip in every article it's used. You can use this for banners, contact hours, web forms. The sky's the limit 🌞
We recommend you differentiate between types of Clip by naming them something memorable. Try using TEMPLATE: or SECTION: as prefixes for your titles.

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