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title: Edit multi-channel content
slug: cms-13/docs/edit-multi-channel-content
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createdAt: 2026-07-30T20:22:06.928Z
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Multi-channel content in Optimizely Content Management System (CMS 13) lets you create and manage headless content that is delivered to any channel or device. Use multi-channel content to decouple content from a specific rendering, making it available through APIs for websites, mobile apps, and other platforms.

## Headless-only mode

Developers can enable pure headless mode, letting you create only headless content in CMS 13. When headless-only mode is enabled, the **Multi-Channel Content** gadget is the only gadget that displays in the navigation pane (no page tree navigation). Preview is available depending on the content type and its rendering. Page-specific editing functionality is not available.

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## Hybrid multi-channel content mode

Create headless content even when a developer does not turn on headless mode. Add the **Multi-Channel Content** gadget to the navigation pane alongside the page navigation tree.

1. Click **Settings > Add Gadgets**.

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2. Select **Multi-Channel Content**.

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The **Multi-Channel Content** view displays in the left navigation pane.

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When you add the **Multi-Channel Content** gadget, you can remove and re-add the **Navigation** and **Assets** gadgets through the **Add Gadgets** settings option. To remove a gadget, open the gadget's settings and select **Remove Gadget**.

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### Differences between the Multi-Channel Content view and the Navigation view

The **Multi-Channel Content** view is similar in appearance and functionality (with a search box and content tree) to the **Navigation** view (Pages, Sites, Tasks, Project Items) and the **Assets** view (Blocks, Media), with the following multi-channel content-specific differences:

- **Multi-Channel Content** folders and blocks are decoupled from the CMS and do not display in the **Navigation** or **Assets** views, which are part of the coupled CMS. Headless folders and blocks display in the **Access Rights** settings page. See [Set access rights for multi-channel content](docId:6dbl3ZMBtvKFtt1c9ZOdl).
- Multi-channel content has the same root as **For All Sites**.
- Unlike in the **Assets** view, you can create a block under a block as an organizational structure. However, you can only store images in a folder (and not in a block).
- You can see multi-channel blocks and media in the **Assets** folder. Still, when **Multi-Channel Content** mode is disabled, you cannot access those blocks and media (except programmatically through the properties of those contents).
- Apply approval sequences to folders, but not blocks.

## Create multi-channel content

Create folders and blocks the same way you create them for coupled CMS content.

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## Set access rights for multi-channel content

Multi-channel content folders and blocks do not display in the **Navigation** or **Assets** gadgets, but multi-channel content displays in **Set Access Rights** with the rest of the CMS content, and access rights are set in the same way.

1. Go to **Settings > Set Access Rights**.
2. Click the folder for your multi-channel content and set the access rights you want.