Create an Opt-in Overlay
Sometimes you need to create template specializations that are not tied to a particular publication. You might, for example, want to modify some aspect of the layout in certain sections of one publication, or in the same section of several publications (but not all of them). You also might want to be able to easily turn such specializations on and off. You can do this by creating opt-in overlays. Creating an opt-in overlay is almost the same as creating a publication overlay: the only difference is that the overlay key you choose when naming the overlay must not match the name of any publication that uses the blueprint, otherwise it will be used by that publication as a publication overlay.
Once you have created an opt-in overlay, it will only be used in
publications or sections where it is actively selected. If you have
created a Sports section opt-in overlay called
overlay.worldcup.config.default.section.sports
, then
in order to activate in a particular publication you would need to:
-
Start Content Studio and log in as a user with
editor
orjournalist
access to the publication you are interested in. -
Find the Sports section (
config.default.section.sports
) in the section tree and right-click on it. -
Select Edit from the displayed menu.
-
Click on the Section parameters tab in the opened editor.
-
Look for the parameter
wf.overlays
in the Section parameters field. -
If you find an existing
wf.overlays
parameter, addworldcup
to its list of values (comma-separated). If you can't find awf.overlays
parameter, then add it yourself:wf.overlays=worldcup
-
Save and close the section.
Whatever specialization you defined in your worldcup
overlay should now be visible in the Sports section of the publication
you modified (and all the Sport sections' subsections), but not in the
Sports sections of the other publications that share the same blueprint.
You can, however, add it to other Sports sections by adding the
wf.overlays=worldcup
setting to them as well.