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Administrators can set guardrails on modules and themes so that they can only be used in certain ways to ensure brand guidelines are adhered to.
Need help building modules & themes? Try these articles:
How to add editing restrictions to modules - Simply start building a new module and all options will be available in the module editing screen,
How to add editing restrictions to custom themes - build/save the theme as you normally would. Navigate to company settings > themes and open the theme to edit it. options to set restrictions will be available, more details below.
Available editing restrictions
Image width and height restrictions
Add an image into your module/theme 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.
Text character restrictions
Add a text content block into your module/theme & scroll to the bottom of the text attribute section. You can add a max amount of characters for that text section
Module/Theme editing restrictions
On each part of your content you can restrict how it can be edited. This can be done on an individual content block such as an image. Or on an entire content row, or a combination of both.
Click on the piece of content you want to restricted and choose from the following:
Unlocked - fully editable
Fully Locked - no editing allowed
Locked (Text editable) - Editing options are locked, text is editable
Custom Restrictions - enable, lock or hide each editing option, more details below.
Custom restrictions
Selecting custom restrictions allows you to set fine grained restrictions on any available editing option e.g. Font type, text color, alignment etc.
A new dropdown will appear next to all editing options with the following options:
Inherit - takes the same permissions as the parent object.
Editable - can be changes by email builders
Locked - not editable
Hidden - Locked and removed from view
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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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