Trying out the new Content Edit screen

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We recently rolled out an early version of the new Content Edit screen. This is part of our overall UX redesign and showcases some of the major changes to the top and right navigation, collaboration tools, new pickers, and other adjustments to make managing content easier.

We would love to have your content teams check it out and provide feedback! It is a work in progress so things like Custom Fields are not fully supported yet, and version History is still on it’s way, but for simpler content types it is ready to check out!

To turn this on in environments running 25.03.21 or newer:

  1. Choose the content type(s) for which you would like to turn the new editor on
  2. Edit the content type, and at the top of the edit screen you will see a toggle to turn on the editor, check the box and save
  3. You can turn the new editor off at any time

Let us know how it goes! We welcome any feedback on the new layout and experience!

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The functionality improvement with Relationships is great - seeing what was already selected is awesome. Sort of miss the images, though. I tried to add an image to the ‘show in list’ but that’s not an option.

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Hi Mark, thanks for checking it out! Yeah that is one of the several items we are still finishing up. The new Related Content picker does not yet pick up the showFields property so you cannot get an image or other fields to show on the content edit screen, and the popup picker is not customizable yet to be able to show different fields, thumbnails etc. On it’s way!

Appreciate the feedback and insights Mark, cheers!