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Customizing the Universal Editor customizing

Last update: Thu Feb 13 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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Learn about the different options to customize the Universal Editor to support the needs of your content authors.

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The Universal Editor also offers many extension points, allowing you to expand its functionality to meet your project needs.

Disabling Publishing disable-publish

Certain authoring workflows require content to be reviewed before it is published. In such situations, the option to publish should not be available to any authors.

The Publish button can therefore be suppressed entirely in an app by adding the following metadata.

<meta name="urn:adobe:aue:config:disable" content="publish"/>

Filtering Components filtering-components

You can restrict the allowed components per container in the Universal Editor using component filters. Please see the document Filtering Components for more information.

Conditionally Show and Hide Components in Properties Panel conditionally-hide

Although a component or components may generally be available to your authors, there may be certain situations where it does not make sense. In such cases, you can hide components in the properties panel by adding a condition attribute to the fields of the component model.

Conditions can be defined using JsonLogic schema. If the condition is true, then the field will be displayed. If the condition is false, then the field will be hidden.

Sample Model
code language-json 
 {
    "id": "conditionally-revealed-component",
    "fields": [
      {
        "component": "boolean",
        "label": "Shall the text field be revealed?",
        "name": "reveal",
        "valueType": "boolean"
      },
      {
        "component": "text-input",
        "label": "Hidden text field",
        "name": "hidden-text",
        "valueType": "string",
        "condition": { "===": [{"var" : "reveal"}, true] }
      }
    ]
 }
Condition False
Hidden text field
Condition True
Shown text field

Custom Preview URLs custom-preview-urls

You can specify a custom preview URL via a urn:adobe:aue:config:preview meta configuration, which will open when clicking the Open page button in the editor’s top-right toolbar.

This is particularly useful for applications with specific preview requirements, such as those using Edge Delivery Services with WYSIWYG authoring.

To do so, simply include the desired preview URL in a meta tag of the instrumented app like the following example.

<meta name="urn:adobe:aue:config:preview" content="https://wknd.site"/>
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