Content editor
The content editor is the main interface you interact with when writing, editing, and managing your topics and documents. It consists of the document outline to organize topics and access topic-related features, the rich text editor where you write and edit your content, a Panel where you can cooperate through comments, some access menu and shortcut buttons, and more options to manage topic and document settings. Let's take a look at each part.
1. Document menu
The three-horizontal-line (Hamburger menu) menu on the top left of the navigation bar gives you quick access to the documents, their management, and settings directly from the content editor page. You can access and manage document lists, styles, general and advanced settings, publish requests, languages, variants, feedback analysis, and share your document link. Here are what you find on the document menu.
Open the menu and click:
- Home: to go back to your document list and details on your home.
- Edit Content: to close the menu and go back to the content editor page.
- Document Settings: to access and manage your document's style as well as general and advanced settings.
- Publish request: to see the number and details of publish requests.
- Languages: to add a new language, change the default language or delete a language
- Variants: to add a new variant, change the default variant, or delete a variant
- Analysis: to filter and view feedback on your document.
- Share: to view and share your document URL by copy-pasting or QR code.
2. Document name list
On the right side of the navigation bar, you will find your present document name. Click the document name to expand the list of documents and switch between them.
3. Document variants
Next to the document name on the right, you will find the variant of your present document. Click the dropdown arrow to see the list of available variants. You can manage your document variants and easily switch between them.
4. Document languages
Next to the document variant on the right, you will find the language of your present document. Click the dropdown arrow to see the list of languages. You can manage your document languages and easily switch between them.
5. Notifications
The number of new notifications is shown in a red circle on the alert bell icon on the top right of the window, next to the profile icon. Click the notification alert to see the list of your notifications. Click each notification title to see more details.
6. Profile icon
Click your profile icon to access your profile settings, contact sonat by sending feedback or asking questions, and sign out of your account.
7. New menu
The new menu is on the left, under the navigation bar. It includes a NEW button in blue and an expandable list next to it.
Click NEW to add a new topic to the table of content (document outline).
Click the dropdown menu next to the new button to copy and publish one or multiple topics simultaneously or create "publish requests".
8. Document outline
The document outline or topic tree is the panel on the left of the content editor page which also serves as a table of content (ToC). Any topic you add to your document will immediately appear in the document outline on the left, where you can see and manage the order and hierarchy of the topics. You can also search topics through the blank field on the top, and distinguish published topics from new, edited, and deleted ones at a glance since they are marked by green, yellow, and red symbols, respectively. Moreover, you can access topic features, actions, and settings directly from the document outline. Click the options menu appearing in three vertical dots next to each topic to manage options relevant to that particular topic, including:
Publish: to directly publish the selected topic.
Delete: to delete the selected topic.
New child topic: to add a sub-topic (a child topic) to the selected topic.
Copy topic here: to copy a topic as a subtopic to the selected one.
Move up: to change the order of the topics by moving up the selected one.
Move down: to change the order of the topics by moving down the selected one.
Indent: to indent the selected topic as a subtopic of the one above (the parent/root topic).
Outdent: to outdent the selected topic so that it will be in the same position as its parent/root topic.
Undo delete: to undo deleting a published topic.
Discard changes: to revert to the latest published version.
Settings: to set a topic slug, description, and schema type.
History: to see or restore previous versions in the version history
Feedback: to filter and view feedback on your topic.
9. Breadcrumb
Under the navigation bar and above the rich text editor on the left, you can find the breadcrumb navigation of your topic. You can directly go to the root topics by clicking their title in the breadcrumb navigation.
10. View live
You can see the view live of your published topic by clicking the view live icon next to the breadcrumb above the rich text editor box. Please note that the view live icon is only visible on the documents that have been published before.
11. Draft
If your document is not published yet, you will see it's marked by Draft above the rich text editor, reminding you that the new changes to this topic have not been published yet.
12. Autosave (Saving/Saved)
Sonat provides autosaving. Therefore, you will not need to click a save button every time you edit your content. The autosave system starts saving your content as you type and edit and is shown by "Saving" above the rich text editor. The status changes from saving to Saved as soon as you stop editing. Moving over "Saved" shows the time the content was last saved.
13. Topic slug
You can check and edit your topic slug directly from the content editor page.
14. Watchers
Any member of an organization can choose to watch or unwatch a topic or other entities and processes. Watching a topic means following up on its progress by receiving notifications for every change in that particular topic. In contrast, unwatching means refusing to receive notifications for changes. Under the document name, you will find the watcher list icon.
- By clicking the eye button, you'll start watching the topic, and when you click on the eye button with a strikethrough, you'll stop watching it.
- The dropdown menu next to the eye sign shows the list of watchers of a topic.
15. Delete
You can delete a topic directly by clicking the Delete button on the top right of the editor window.
16. Publish
You can directly publish your topic using the Publish button on the top right.
17. More options
More options menu shown by three vertical dots on the top right, next to the publish button, gives you access to some topic features and options including history, preview, feedback, share, settings, and going back to the content editor.
Edit content: to close the menu and go back to the content editor page.
History: to see or restore previous versions in the version history
Settings: to set a topic slug, description, and schema type.
Feedback: to filter and view feedback on your topic.
Preview: to see your topic preview before publishing.
Share: to view and share your document URL by copy-pasting or QR code.
18. Comments
The comment box is placed in the right panel. You can add, delete, edit your comments, or reply to other comments in a thread.
19. Rich text editor
The rich text editor is the central part of the content editor page, where you can add and edit your topics and their content. The rich text editor consists of:
a. Toolbar: The toolbar is placed on the top of the writing space. You can use options in the toolbar to apply different formatting and style to your content or add media, tables, links, symbols, etc. You can also apply autoformatting to your content using shortcodes.
b. More options: You can access more formatting and insert options through the more options menu shown by the three vertical dots on the right side of the toolbar.
c. Writing space: The writing space is the blank box where you add and edit your content which includes a title and content body section where you can type or paste your content in the title or body section.