What Are Content Collections?
Content Collections let you group content into a curated set that members can browse from your community’s content experience. You can use them to organize related posts, videos, resources, and other content in one place.
Collections vs. Tags
Both tags and collections allow you to group content. The biggest difference is collections show on the content page as their own section. Members can browse the different collections and you can easily link to them directly. Tags serve more to power related content and recommendations while collections are more curated playlists.
Best practices and examples
Collections can be used to group and present content based on interest, category, or some other common characteristic. You could create a collection of all the replays for a particular event or you could create collections for specific categories of content (e.g. News, Fireside Chats, etc).
Creating a Collection
Sign into your dashboard, navigate to Content and then to Collections.
Select the + New Collection button in the upper right and enter the collection details, including the name, URL, and optional cover image, description, and tags. You can also choose the collection’s access, layout, and visibility before saving.
Save your work and the collection is created!
Adding Content to a Collection
Once the collection is created, you can add content pieces and organize them within the collection. You can keep content at the top level or place it into folders to create a clearer structure.
Note: The content piece must be created in the dashboard to appear in the Collection builder, so ensure all videos, blogs, etc. are created and uploaded before adding them to a Collection.
Sign into your dashboard, navigate to Content, and then to Collections.
Select the Collection you'd like to add content to.
Select the + Add Content button in the center of the page, or in the upper right hand side.
This opens a content selection window, where you can browse content types and use search or filters to find the items you want to add.
Find & select the content piece(s) from the list, or search for the title in the search bar. You can select as many as you'd like and select 'Ok' to add them to the Collection.
You can add content that is space-restricted, or club-level content. If it's club-level content, it must be promoted at the community level as well to be able to be added to a Collection.
Note: You can add content that is space-restricted to Collections, but that content will only display to those in the space and those space-restricted content pieces will not be included in the content count to anyone not in the space. Currently, entire collections cannot be space-restricted.
Learn more about Spaces here.
Editing Collections
If you need to edit the Collection's title, slug, cover image or visibility, you can select the Collection's title from the list and select 'Edit Collection', or select the Edit button in line with the Collection's title from the list.
Reordering Collections
You can manipulate the order in which Collections appear on the front end from the Collections list in your dashboard. Select the hamburger icon beside the title of the Collection you'd like to move, and drag and drop it to the position you'd like. This will take immediate effect on the front end.
You can also use the sort arrow function to sort by 'name' or 'updated at' to re-order the collections.
Editing Content within a Collection
If you need to edit content within a collection, select the collection from the list and use + Add Content to add more items, or Remove to take items out.
You can choose how the collection is ordered:
Latest shows items by publish date
Manual lets you drag and reorder items yourself
If you are using folders, you can also move items into a folder or back to the top level of the collection.
Featured Collections
On the front end, featured collection(s) are populated directly above the group of other Collections page on the Collections page, and on the Content page, featured collection(s) populate directly under the group of other Collections.
To feature a collection, you will navigate to the Collections tab in the dashboard, select the Edit icon in line with the Collection in the list, and select 'Feature this Collection'.
If you want to remove a Collection from the featured list, follow the steps above but select 'Remove from Featured'.
Collection Viewership Data & Reporting
You can now track the views of your Collection's main landing page through the community content reports or via the 'Viewers' tab in the dashboard.
Video Overview of Collections
Looking for collections that include courses, events, or folders? See our Collections overview article for the full collection experience across your community.