Configuring content stages

#Overview

Hygraph offers two OOTB system content stages, plus the ability to create custom content stages depending on your plan.

This document provides information on how system content stages work, and how to work with custom stages.

#What you can do

You can use the system content stages OOTB, or customize your workflow by creating custom content stages.

#System content stages

Hygraph has two system content stages, DRAFT and PUBLISHED. These content stages cannot be edited or deleted.

DRAFT allows people to add and edit content without affecting published content. Promoting the content to the PUBLISHED stage, pushes it live, which means it can be consumed by others.

#Custom content stages

#Creating custom content stages

To create your own content stages, navigate to Project settings > General > Content stages.

The default screen shows the DRAFT and PUBLISHED system stages, and offers the option to upgrade your plan if you want to configure any additional stages.

Content Stages Project Settings

The QA stage card is grayed out as it's not part of the Community Plan. Clicking on the Upgrade to add this content stage link at the bottom of this card displays a popup where you can select the best plan for your project.

QA Stage

You can also change the order of your destination content stages by clicking on the six dots handle, located to the left of each configured stage card, and dragging.

If you haven't reached the limit of stages for your plan, then you will simply be provided with the option of adding a new stage.

+ Add stage

If your project allows custom content stages, clicking on + Add stage displays a screen that requires you to provide a Display name and select a label color. You can optionally add a description. The API ID field will be autocompleted as you write the display name.

+ Add stage

After typing in all the necessary information, you can click Add to create the content stage.

#Editing custom content stages

To edit a custom content stage, navigate to Project settings > General > Content stages in your Hygraph project, and click on the Edit button on the card of the content stage you want to edit.

Edit stage

The content stage details page will display. Edit the information you need to change, then click Update to save your changes.

Edit stage - details screen

#Deleting custom content stages

To delete a custom content stage, navigate to Project settings > General > Content stages in your Hygraph project, and click Delete on the card of the content stage you want to delete.

Delete stage

A confirmation screen displays, where you need to type in the stage name, then click Delete stage to proceed.

Delete stage - confirmation screen