Change text in the messages.json in Experience Builder

Experience Builder

Summary

In this article, you learn how to edit text belonging to text keys in the messages.json in Experience Builder. You will go to the messages.json, change the text for the text keys belonging to the search view in your app, review the text in the preview, update the dynamic resources and merge your changes.

Preconditions

How-to guide

1. Go to Experience Builder, choose your app from the list and click on it



2. Click on 'Pull from preview'



3. Click on 'default'



4. Click on 'storefront'



5. Click on 'assets'



6. Click on messages.json



7. Scroll down in the list of text keys to the keys beginning with 'SEARCH'



8. Go to the text next to 'SEARCH_FIELD_PLACEHOLDER' and overwrite the text with your own desired text, e.g. 'Search'



9. Go to the text next to 'SEARCH_RESULTS_EMPTY_TITLE' and type overwrite the text with your own desired text, e.g. 'Search results'



10. You can repeat Step 8 or 9 for each text key that you wish to change the text for

11. When you are done with the change, click on the preview symbol



12. Click on 'Search'

Step 13 screenshot



13. Check the Search view to make sure the changed text keys look as expected



14. Click on the burger menu



15. Click on 'Update Dynamic Resources'



16. Name your changes, e.g. 'configured-messages-json'



17. Click on 'Merge all files to preview'