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You can think of content items as a kind of sub-document. A content item contains both structure and content, just like a document. But, you cannot ‘generate’ a content item as you can a document. Content items can be used as part of other content items, documents, and in pages and containers. 

An example of a content item:

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As can be seen in the example above, a content item exists of two parts:

1. The structure of the content item, shown on the left side as a tree.

2. A preview of the content item on the right side, showing the text and images in a linear textual form.

Whenever a content node is selected in the tree, its content is highlighted in the document preview and vice versa.

Editing structure

The structure of a content item consists of content nodes, which may be:

• reusable and inline text items,

• content items,

• images.

A content node can have the following properties:

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You can specify any expression that evaluates to a set of instances (e.g. ALL Customer, Policy.HasApplicants, COLLECT Customer FROM ALL Customer WHERE <condition>). For each instance in the set that results from the repeat expression, the content node (and all of its content) is repeated. With each repetition an instance from the set is activated.

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Defines the layout of the content in the node, e.g. a chapter is always preceded by a page break. 

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Defines the formatting of the content in a node, e.g. the font face, colour, etc.

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To add a content node:

1. Hover over a row in the tree structure.
2. Click the add-button: Image Removed.
3. Select which content node type you want to add.
4. Select either insert after or insert child. Restrictions may apply. 

Delete a content node:

1. Hover over a row in the tree structure.
2. Select the delete-button: Image Removed.

To rearrange content nodes:

1. Use the drag & drop handle Image Removed that appears after hovering over a row.

Editing text

The preview part consists of previews of images and one or more text item editors, in which text can be edited. Read more about how to edit text items here.