ListManager comes with numerous pre-built templates. If you'd like to create and use your own templates, follow these steps.
Creating a Fill-in-the-Blank Template
A fill-in-the-blank template helps users insert text into the right place to make their own content. To make fill-in-the-blank templates, you must insert a template field into your content. Template fields may be put anywhere in your message—the subject line, say, or the From: address. When a user chooses a template, all they will need to do is to fill in the form with the requested information to generate new content.
1. In the left Navigation Bar, click Content, then click View Templates, and then click the Create New Template button.
2. In the Essentials tab, fill in the name, description, etc., just as you did for creating content. The steps for adding content in the HTML Message and Text Message tabs are also the same.
3. Click the Specify Editable Regions tab.
When you create a template, you can have sections that will never change (for example, a product description) and other areas that will change periodically (for example, news about special events). In the Specify Editable Regions tab, you can choose to make paragraphs of text or images editable. You would then edit these areas in the Fill in Editable Regions tab when you make new content from a template.
Note The following tags are the only ones that contain content that can be made editable:
paragraph <p>
image <img>
div <div>
headings 1 through 6 <h1>, <h2>, etc.
To specify an editable region
a. Move the pointer over the content you want to make editable.
A red box appears around the region; its title bar contains the tag name and a message telling you to click to make it editable.
b. Click the content.
A green box appears around the content telling you it is now editable.
4. Click Save.
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