Curator: Functions and fields
6 min
Purple Hub
Summary
In this article, you learn what the functions and fields of the Purple Curator UI in Purple Hub are for. With the Purple Curator, you can create collections, name them and add posts to these collections. Besides, you can sort them to give them a defined order. There is the option to make a post 'sticky' by adding it to the 'High Priority List'. You can either a) query a created collection in the Views.json in Experience Builder to display it in the Purple Experience or, b) request it via Catalog API to make it visible in your own frontend for App or Web. Besides, you will learn how the 'Force' feature works and find an example below.
Preconditions
- Have at least two articles created and published
- Have a Purple Managing Editor role in the Purple Hub
Explanation
- You can access the Purple Curator via the left-hand side menu bar. To use the feature, you need the role of the 'Purple Managing Editor'.
- To create a new collection, click the "Add new" buttan and enter the title for your new collection
- 'Collections' is a list of all your existing collections. Here, you can search for existing collections, via the search field. If you want to delete a collection from the list, click on the three dots at the end of one list item, click on "Delete" and confirm
- This column lists all articles which you have in your Purple Hub. On the top, you can search for an article via the search field or filter with multiple filters as you know it from the Post Overview. Before each each article, you see a number that show in how many collections the article already has been included, hovering that number displays a tooltip with the names of the collections. When you click the three dots, you can open the post or preview it.
- As in the Post Overview you can save your preferred filters by clicking this button
- The Main List contains the articles which are assigned to the displayed collection. The little number, on the left side of the title of each article, displays the index of each item. The article can get resorted per drag and drop.
- Pinned posts stay fixed at their current position, even when changing the order of the posts around them. Posts can pinned or unpinned by clicking the three dots -> Pin/Unpin
- Before leaving the curator, the changes need to be published.