Define page properties
Important This topic is for CMS (SaaS) administrators and developers with administrative access rights.
In Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) (SaaS), property types are the building blocks of content types. Content types are the building blocks of web content.
CMS (SaaS) uses the following types of properties:
- Default properties – Set by the system and are available for pages and blocks regardless of type. See the following topics for property details:
- User-defined properties – Added to the page, block, and experience type definitions. See the following documentation:
Create content type
You can create different content types (Page, Block, Media, Experience, Element) by defining combinations of properties. To work with content types, go to Settings > Content Types > [select content type] > Properties.
- Go to Settings > Content Types and click Create New > Page Type (or other type).
- Enter the page information and click Create.
- Click Add Property and select a property to define for the page type.
- Complete the fields on the Configure Property page.
Note Each type has different validations that display.
- Click Save.
View content type details
The Details page for a content type displays the following information:
- GUID – The content type's GUID.
- Base – The content type's base type.
- From code – Not applicable to CMS (SaaS).
- Created – When the content type was created.
- Modified – When the content type was changed.
- Class Name – Displays the API class to which the content type belongs, with additional information.
Set default values
Note The Default values page only displays for page types.
It does not display for block, media, experience, or element types.
- Use adjusted default settings for pages using this page type
- Select to define the publishing options for this page type.
- Clear to let the system set the publishing options (Never is the default for Publish after and Unpublish after) for this page type.
- Sort index – Not applicable to CMS (SaaS).
- Publish after – Enter a number and select minute, hour, and day. In the following example, content of this page type is automatically published to the application 30 minutes after you publish the page after editing.
- Unpublish after – Enter a number and select minute, hour, and day. In the following example, content of this page type is unpublished after 1 day (because you may have time-sensitive data that you want to display for only 1 day).
Set child content types
You can limit the content types that others can add as associated children of the content type.
- None – Default, for no child types.
- All – Any child type.
- Selected – Select the content types you want.
For example, perhaps you want the Article content type's children types to be limited to Corporate Office and Article Group Page.
Set permissions for content type
If you want to make the content type available only to specific groups, go to Permissions for the content type.
- Click Delete to remove the Everyone group.
- Select Add User/Group > Content Editors (or another group or user).
Note Administrators manage users and groups through Opti ID.
- To add users, see Manage users in the Opti ID documentation.
- To add groups, see Manage groups in the Opti ID documentation.
- Click Save. The updated content type shows Content Editors in the Access Level column of the Content Types list.
When a user tries to Create an Experience, the Blank experience content type is visible and available only to users in the Content Editors group.
Set content type settings
The content type Settings page displays the basic settings of the content type.
- Name – Enter the internal name for this content type, using only alphanumeric characters and underscores (_). No spaces.
- Display name – Enter the name that displays in the Content Types list.
- Description – Enter a description for the content type, which displays when you are selecting a content type.
- Icon – Select an icon that represents the content type. The default is (No icon). Visual Builder displays the icon next to sections and elements of this type in the outline. The icon helps editors tell sections and elements apart. The Icon field is unavailable for content types from an external content source.
- Sort index – Manually set the Sort index value for this page type. The sort index for a content type controls the order in which content types are listed on the Content Types page.
- Available in edit view – Enable this when you want to make the content type available in edit view. Clear it to make it inaccessible from edit view.
- Delete Content Type – Click Delete Content Type and confirm it to delete the content type. If your content type is in use, a message lists the items that you must delete before you can delete the content type.
