General product questions

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26 Topics

ConorEgan
Contentstack
ConorEganContentstack
posted in General product questions

What is the next piece of technology you are looking to add to your stack?

One advantage of MACH architecture is the ability to continue to grow and evolve your stack as your business needs change.Presumably you have already added a CMS, but what’s next?  Personalization?  eCommerce?  Translations? I would love to discuss what’s next.

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ConorEgan
Contentstack
1 year ago
christine.masters
Contentstack
christine.mastersContentstack
posted in General product questions

User stories: How can automations make your team more efficient and effective?

Hi everyone! I’m a PM here at Contentstack working on the new Automation Hub product. I would be really interested to hear more from anyone about any user stories you have surrounding automations. Do you employ any automations in your existing workflows? What tasks are you currently automating? Think about your current business processes related to content. Are there any repetitive tasks that could be automated? Can you identify any multi-step processes that could be streamlined? Are there any tasks currently performed by humans that could be made more consistent through automation? Humans sometimes forget things or make mistakes. :( Do you currently have any “middleware” (such lambda functions using web hooks) that helps automate workflows or integrations between vendors? Any other thoughts about the Automation Hub or automations in general? I would love to hear from you! Click on my profile and then use the “send message” button and let’s chat.Thanks in advance!!

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christine.masters
Contentstack
1 year ago
Russell Swanker
Contentstack
Russell SwankerContentstack
posted in General product questions

What has been your experience using Contentstack to create, edit, or manage content?

Contentstack’s new experience for content creators and editors is designed to make it easier to generate, edit, and manage content.What has your experience been? How have Contentstack’s tools helped you create or edit content? In what areas would you like to see improvement?

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Russell Swanker
Contentstack
1 year ago
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Xavier ValtechContentstack Partner
posted in General product questions

Default value for different locales

Hello, I understand the concept of default value in Contentstack, but it seems that the default value is only possible in one language since there is just one expected value.Is there a way or a proposed solution to have default values different based on the locale of the entry ? Thanks.

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16 days ago
Jack Simkins
Jack SimkinsNew here
asked in General product questions

Using the AI Assistant: Use Case Guidance Needed!

Hi all, I would like to build out a custom prompt for the AI assistant to pull in data from elsewhere on the entry. For example - an entry that is for a hotel that has no descriptions. It would be great to use the AI Assistant to perform a task of writing a 250 word description. The problem is, it needs the context of the hotel’s name in order to accurately write the response. Does anyone have any suggestions for how you can integrate other fields of data to the prompt so that it uses it as part of the response. I’m getting a lot of ‘Welcome to undefined’ at the moment. Alternatively, if you have other suggestions for how you can use the custom prompts to assist with Marketing users to generate content that would be great! 

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Jack Simkins
3 months ago
Dean
Contentstack
DeanContentstack
posted in General product questions

New Framework Guides for Launch!

Greetings from the Launch team! We’re happy to share with you a couple of new resources to help your team get up to speed quickly with Next.js and Gatsby sites hosted on Launch.We now have Framework Guides available for hosting Next.js and Gatsby sites on Contentstack Launch. Use these guides as you plan your site architecture to ensure you’re following Contentstack best practices and working gracefully with Launch.As always, our support team is standing by if you run into any blockers or have ideas of how to make Launch work better for your team.It’s going to be an exciting year for Launch and Contentstack, and we’re looking forward to many exciting improvements and enhancements coming your way!-- Dean Haddock, Product Manager for Launch

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Dean
Contentstack
3 months ago
Jack Simkins
Jack SimkinsNew here
asked in General product questions

Using Automation & Workflows together: 'Date Expired' Use Case

Hi all, I have a use case whereby a date band is used in a content type. When the date is expired, it often requires a manual process to check and update and can often lead to incorrect content on the website. Can anyone suggest the best way to get notified when a date expires for a content entry? I am unsure if CS Automation is able to accommodate for this as the ‘trigger’ of the date expiring is not based on the entry itself being modified. In an ideal world, when a date expires this then triggers an automatic change of workflow status and the status would then be funneled through to a CS content manager who can update the content. Any suggestions would be appreciated! 

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Victor Monsch
Contentstack
4 months ago
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KieferNew here
asked in General product questions

Is there a schema definition for the json returned by the API?

Having a document describing the fields in the JSON for content-types, for example, would be helpful for understanding how to use the API. Is there something like this out there?

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C
Contentstack
10 months ago
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TimNew here
asked in General product questions

New search release broken?

Hi there,We’re enjoying the new entries functionality of being able to move and resize columns, however it looks like search has gone backwards in this release.Example. - when we search for a term (even an exact match term) the result set do not reflect the search term used. Refining it further to use content type does not have any effect on improving the result set.Anyone else experiencing this?ThanksTim

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1 year ago
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Contentstack
vidar.massonContentstack
posted in General product questions

Query by URL across content types

A common use case in Contentstack is querying for a content entry by URL.If you have multiple possible content types, an efficient way of finding the right entry is via the GraphQL API. You simply query all the possible content types with the given URL and only the correct type will return a result.Here is an example of such a query: 

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1 year ago
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jajimeneContentstack Partner
asked in General product questions

How to get an entry without knowing its content type

Hi,We have a complex website where entries for different content types can be created under any URL prefix.We’d like to know if it’s possible to get an entry via Delivery API / SDK based only in the URL. This is because, when a page is requested to the app, the frontend has no way to know which content type that entry belongs to, just its URL.We’ve seen examples, like in the starter app, where you know beforehand that any entry under /blogs url prefix will be of a known content type. Well, this is not our case, we can have a sitemap similar to this:http://myhomepage.com/info/abc http://myhomepage.com/info/defWhere /abc and /def can be entries based on any of our page content types.We checked the API documentation, but every endpoint returning entries requires the ‘content_type’ parameter.Thanks!

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S
Contentstack
1 year ago
Jack Simkins
Jack SimkinsNew here
posted in General product questions

What do you think of the new UI?

As a Contentstack ‘superuser’ since mid-2019, i have been heavily involved with building and designing schema. That also means i’ve used the old UI a fair amount vs the new UI. I’d be interested to know if people have been using the new UI, what they like and what they think could be improved. Are there are any tricks you have encountered you would be willing to share?

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1 year ago
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AndreaINew here
asked in General product questions

Search functionality

Hi, I am quite new in using in the new interface, but getting used to it. ;-) However, I am struggling a bit with the new Search. For our purpose, it very often is not specific enough. For example, looking for a registered user of our website who is using a gmail address, we would find any gmail users when looking for namexyz@gmail.com. Another example: If I search for a text in a content block, get too many results,I am not able to specify my search by adding a second word. I will get the message “Cannot use multiple Text fields”. Do you have any plans to improve that behaviour?I miss the old fields on top of an individual content block whihc I found more intuitive. Thank you. 

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ConorEgan
Contentstack
1 year ago
robert.curlette
Contentstack
robert.curletteContentstack
asked in General product questions

How can I instantly preview my page content?

I would like to be able to see a preview of my page after pressing the save button.  I understand there’s a way to have Contentstack auto-publish the page and update my preview site, but how is this achieved?

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S
Contentstack
1 year ago
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TimNew here
asked in General product questions

Creating sub labels for content types

Is it possible to create sub labels within content types so we can create clean folder structures that mirror the hierarchy of the site?

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1 year ago
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Contentstack
NickContentstack
asked in General product questions

Dealing with Personalization

When dealing with the ever present requirement of Personalization, there are as many solutions as problems.  What are you all doing to personalize content delivery?  Not just for web, but when looking across channels, does that mean that the personalization strategy needs to change a little?  How do you handle this?    

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Contentstack
1 year ago
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kevinyangice
asked in General product questions

Data Sync

What's the best approach to keeping Contentstack data in sync with our in-house database? What's the recommended database we should use for this?

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Contentstack
1 year ago
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kevinyangice
asked in General product questions

Reusable field validations

If we create field-level validations, are we able to save these rules anywhere to be reused later?

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Contentstack
1 year ago
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Contentstack
zamirtContentstack
asked in General product questions

Has Contentstack been successfully implemented as a documentation/knowledge based site by a customer?

Has Contentstack been successfully implemented as a documentation/knowledge based site by a customer? If so are there any best practices in how these should be structured using Contentstack?

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J
Contentstack
1 year ago
Z
Contentstack
zamirtContentstack
asked in General product questions

Does Contentstack store any user data and if so how is it used and secured?

What is Contentstack’s policy on storing personally identifiable information?

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bethany.wiles
Contentstack
1 year ago
jrosmar
jrosmarNew here
asked in General product questions

"like" filter on graphql queries

Hi everyone, Is it possible to use filter "like" on queries using graphql ?Thanks

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S
Contentstack
1 year ago
michellegrady
michellegradyNew here
posted in General product questions

How are you delivering powerful omnichannel experiences?

Have you implemented an omnichannel marketing program with Contentstack? How has Contentstack helped you with your content management strategy?

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michellegrady
1 year ago
MehulPangtey
Contentstack
MehulPangteyContentstack
posted in General product questions

How do I enable SCIM for an organization?

Contentstack supports SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management), which helps you automate provisioning or deprovisioning of individual users and groups. It also enables you to update users and groups using an identity provider (IdP). How SCIM WorksAbout SCIM Supported Identity Providers for SCIM About SCIM Group Mapping Guide OneLogin is provisioning app for Contentstack as your identity provider (IdP).This will allow you to use OneLogin to provision or deprovision users automatically with Contentstack.  To enable SCIM, however, the following things need to be in place:SCIM must be part of your Contentstack plan You must either be an owner or admin of the organization Here is the Step-by-step guide on how you can enable SCIM for your organization . We also have SCIM API using SCIM 2.0 Developer Reference Currently, we extend our SCIM’s support to OneLogin, but you can write your custom tools that can use Contentstack’s SCIM API.  

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MehulPangtey
Contentstack
1 year ago
Imran Khan
Contentstack
Imran KhanContentstack
posted in General product questions

How to get started with Contentstack?

Are you planning to explore Contentstack and its features? Here’s a good starting point:https://www.contentstack.com/docs/developers/contentstack-basics/how-to-start-using-contentstack/Some Important Resources: Starters Easily create a website with your framework of choice Starters are available for React, Vue, Angular, Next.js, Gatsby, Nuxt and .Net SDKs Contentstack provides SDKs for different programming languages that developers can use to develop their applications and power content from Contentstack. CLI The command-line interface (CLI) offers commands that let you perform common tasks in Contentstack easily.  

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Imran Khan
Contentstack
1 year ago
ConorEgan
Contentstack
ConorEganContentstack
posted in General product questions

What was your biggest worry when deciding to use a composable stack?

Major architectural changes can be intimidating.  What were your major concerns about going to a composable stack?  Multiple contracts?  Support?  Integration?If you have already implemented you stack, how easy was it compared to your assumptions? 

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ConorEgan
Contentstack
1 year ago

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