Administrators can set guardrails on modules so that they can only be used in certain ways to ensure brand guidelines are adhered to.

Editing restrictions are set at the module level and can be managed from the module’s editing screen when you create or open a module.

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You can restrict how each part of your content can be edited by modifying the elements editing restrictions. This can be done on an individual content block such as an image, or on an entire content row, or a combination of both.
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To add a restriction, you can begin by clicking on the piece of content you want to restrict and choose one of the following Element Lock:

You can select the gear icon next to the Element Lock to enable Custom Restrictions. Custom restrictions allows you to set fine grained restrictions on any available editing option e.g. Font type, text color, alignment etc.

A dropdown will appear next to all editing options with the following options:

Add an image into your module and on the right side of the screen scroll to the bottom of the image attributes section.
You can set rules for image width and height, rules can force exact dimensions or a minimum.

Add a text content block into your module & scroll to the bottom of the text attribute section. You can add a max amount of characters for that text section

When creating a module, you can set up the module to give a warning, ignore or an error when looking under the optimize tab which will determine if it is high, medium or no impact.

Users with the 'Bypass Editor Restrictions' permission are able to override restrictions for locked modules. When you click on a module with restrictions, you can turn the switch to 'on' which will allow you to bypass the restrictions.

In the self-service preference page, you can select whether it is 'on' or 'off' by default.

*Important to note: "Merge out of date modules" will not work if the module doesn't have an element locked

To ensure that the 'merge out of date module' function updates all elements, the module needs to be fully locked or the section needs to be locked to apply the changes to the asset. By leaving the module unlocked, it lets the user know that any changes can be done to the module. To prevent manual changes from being overridden, we do not update modules that are not locked. If the formatting of a module was adjusted, we recommend locking the section but leaving the text editable so the system can update the module formatting but still allow the text to be modified.

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