Overview of content binders in Purple
Purple Hub
This article gives you a quick overview of the three ways to assemble content in Purple Hub, with Dossiers, Issues and Collections, so that you have it easy to decide, which the appropriate way for your specific use case is.
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| Dossiers | Issues | Collections |
|---|---|---|---|
Usage | Dynamically combine all post types with different publishing statuses to promote them individually in a binder. | Create a static binder of articles e.g. a magazine/newspaper issue. | Create a list of articles e.g. for curating your home page. |
Publishing state | Add already published as well as unpublished contents to a Dossier | Add unpublished articles to an issue | Add already published as well as unpublished articles to a Collection. |
Publishing | While the dossier is being published, the content remains in its original state. At least one post must be published before. | While publishing the issue, all contained articles will be published. | When saving the collection, all the articles in the collection will be published (scheduled ones remain scheduled). |
Contents | Can contain all post types | Can contain articles | Can contain articles |
Monetization | Coupons, individual purchases, entitlement, subscriptions etc. are possible | Coupons, individual purchases, entitlement, subscriptions etc. are possible | It's not possible to separately monetize a collection. Monetization only works on content type level, e.g. by monetizing the article contained in the collection. |