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Rasmus_Bidstru1
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March 3, 2015
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Editing snippets on a landing page

  • March 3, 2015
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Hi

Im making an easy to use landing page setup for a client. They want it so its easy for them to drag'n'drop snippets on a landing page, edit the content and images within the snippet and place it where they need it.

I made the landping page template, and css, made some standard snippets that looked great, but first now I realized that when you drop a snippet on a landping page you cant just change the content within the snippet for local use... (facepalm)

Any ideas on how to accomplice this? Drag and drop pre-configured elements, they can change after dropped.
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Best answer by Dan_Stevens_
That's expected behavior of snippets - to not edit them.  If you do edit a snippet, it's replicated across every asset that uses that snippet. 

But it sounds like you're looking for the same functionality that exists in emails - where you can replace a content block with a snippet, remove snippet and then edit the "now disconnected" snippet text.  The issue here is you're talking about two different editor models here.  In an email, you have pre-defined editable regions that can contain text, snippets, etc.  Whereas in a landing page, you physically drag new elements onto the page - where no predefined, editable regions exists.  So a snippet in this regard is just a pre-defined block of text/images (with no editing capabilities).

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Dan_Stevens_Accepted solution
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March 3, 2015
That's expected behavior of snippets - to not edit them.  If you do edit a snippet, it's replicated across every asset that uses that snippet. 

But it sounds like you're looking for the same functionality that exists in emails - where you can replace a content block with a snippet, remove snippet and then edit the "now disconnected" snippet text.  The issue here is you're talking about two different editor models here.  In an email, you have pre-defined editable regions that can contain text, snippets, etc.  Whereas in a landing page, you physically drag new elements onto the page - where no predefined, editable regions exists.  So a snippet in this regard is just a pre-defined block of text/images (with no editing capabilities).
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Rasmus_Bidstru1Author
Level 4
March 4, 2015
Thanks for the answer,and you are right, im looking for a mix of the two editing models. I will try to make an external html library for the client were they can copy/paste some html from.
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