Is there specific content across your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community you want to group together in order to easily present it to your users?
- With the Add to Collection feature, you can create curated feeds of content for your custom layouts.
- In this article, we'll walk you through the process.
๐ NOTE: Currently, you can only add discussions, ideas, and questions to a Collection, but this will expand to other content types in the future.
Required permissions
A user must belong to a Role with the following permission to manage Collections.
Garden > Community > Manage
Create a Collection
When you create Collections, each Collection must have a unique name.
๐ NOTE: Collection names are not case-sensitive; so, "World Fair" is considered a duplicate of "world fair" and would not be allowed.
You can repeat the following procedure as many times as necessary โ before clicking Submit โ in order to create multiple Collections in one session.
1. Navigate to the Recent Discussions page.
2. Click the ellipsis (...) icon for any discussion, idea, or question, and select Add to Collection.
3. In the dialog, click Add New Collection to add a text field where you can enter a name for your Collection.
4. Click Submit to create your Collection(s).
You can now manage (add and remove) content for the Collections as described in the next section.
Add/remove content to Collection(s)
1. Navigate to the Recent Discussions page.
2. Locate the content you want to add/remove to/from a Collection. Then, click the ellipsis (...) icon and select Add to Collection.
The Add to Collections dialog lists all the Collections that the content currently belongs to.
3. Click the X to remove a Collection or click the dropdown to add (indicated by a checkmark/tick) and/or remove Collections.
4. Click Submit to finalize your changes.
Display a Collection of content
Now that you've created a Collection and added content to it, let's learn how to display a Collection of content to your users.
- A Collection is presented to users via the Featured Collections widget, which can be added to any of your layouts via the Layout Editor.
1. In the Dashboard, edit one of your layouts. (Learn how to access the Layout Editor.)
2. Click one of your layout sections and add the Featured Collections widget to it.
3. You're now configuring the Featured Collections widget.
- First, click the Add Collection dropdown and select the Collection to display in the widget. ๐ NOTE: You can display only one Collection per widget.
- Configure the widget using any of the remaining options. (Learn about widget configuration options in Add & Configure Custom Layout Widgets.)
- Click Save to apply your changes.
- Save and Apply your layout. (Learn how to apply legacy & custom layouts.)
