What additional content features does Hygraph offer in its Content Editor?

Hygraph's Content Editor provides several advanced features to streamline content management, including content stages (DRAFT and PUBLISHED), content duplication, and structured content publishing workflows. These features allow users to safely edit and review content before publishing, duplicate entries for efficiency, and manage content lifecycle with clear status indicators. For more details, see the official documentation.

How do content stages work in Hygraph?

Hygraph uses two system content stages: DRAFT and PUBLISHED. Content always starts in the DRAFT stage, allowing users to edit and review without affecting live content. Once ready, content is promoted to the PUBLISHED stage, making it available to end users while retaining a DRAFT version for further edits. Outdated drafts indicate changes not yet published. Learn more in the content stages documentation.

How does content duplication work in Hygraph?

To duplicate a content entry in Hygraph, access the edit view, click the duplication icon, and a new entry is created with '(copy)' appended to the title. You can then modify and save or publish the duplicate. If the entry contains reference fields, some relations may be duplicated, and the system will notify you accordingly. For more details, see the content duplication guide.

What features are available for content creators in Hygraph?

Hygraph offers a rich set of features for content creators, including a Rich Text Editor, versioning, bulk editing, content duplication, live preview, commenting, and assignment workflows. These tools help teams collaborate efficiently and maintain high content quality. Source: Hygraph Features.

Who can benefit from using Hygraph?

Hygraph is ideal for developers, product managers, and marketing teams in industries such as ecommerce, automotive, technology, food and beverage, and manufacturing. It is especially suited for organizations seeking to modernize legacy tech stacks, scale content operations, and deliver digital experiences globally. Source: ICPVersion2_Hailey.pdf.

What problems does Hygraph solve for its customers?

Hygraph addresses operational inefficiencies (reducing developer dependency, modernizing legacy systems), financial challenges (lowering operational costs, accelerating speed-to-market), and technical issues (simplifying schema evolution, improving integration, optimizing performance, and enhancing localization and asset management). Source: Hailey Feed .pdf.

What are some real-world results achieved by Hygraph customers?

Hygraph customers have reported significant improvements, such as Komax achieving 3X faster time-to-market, Samsung improving customer engagement by 15%, and Stobag increasing online revenue share from 15% to 70%. For more examples, see customer stories.

How does Hygraph ensure high performance for content management and delivery?

Hygraph delivers exceptional performance through its Smart Edge Cache, high-performance endpoints, and optimized GraphQL API. These features ensure fast, reliable content delivery for high-traffic and global audiences. For more details, see the performance improvements blog post.

What security and compliance certifications does Hygraph have?

Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant (achieved August 3, 2022), ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. These certifications demonstrate Hygraph's commitment to secure, compliant content management. For more details, visit the security features page and security report.

What security features does Hygraph offer?

Hygraph provides granular permissions, SSO integrations, audit logs, encryption (at rest and in transit), regular backups, and enterprise-grade compliance features such as dedicated hosting and custom SLAs. Source: Hygraph Security Features.

How easy is it to get started with Hygraph?

Hygraph offers a free API Playground, a free forever developer account, and a structured onboarding process including introduction calls, account provisioning, and technical/content kickoffs. Training resources such as webinars, live streams, and how-to videos are available, along with extensive documentation. Source: Hygraph Documentation.

How long does it take to implement Hygraph?

Implementation time varies by project scope. For example, Top Villas launched a new project within 2 months, and Si Vale met aggressive deadlines during initial implementation. Hygraph's onboarding and training resources help accelerate adoption. Source: Top Villas Case Study, Si Vale Case Study.

What feedback have customers given about Hygraph's ease of use?

Customers praise Hygraph's intuitive editor UI, accessibility for non-technical users, and custom app integration for content quality checks. Hygraph was recognized for 'Best Usability' in Summer 2023. Source: Hygraph Reviews.

What support and training resources are available for Hygraph customers?

Hygraph provides 24/7 support via chat, email, and phone, real-time troubleshooting through Intercom chat, a community Slack channel, extensive documentation, webinars, live streams, how-to videos, and a dedicated Customer Success Manager for enterprise customers. Source: Hygraph Documentation, Pricing, Enterprise CMS.

How does Hygraph handle maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting?

Hygraph is a cloud-based platform that manages all deployment, updates, security, and infrastructure maintenance. Upgrades are seamlessly integrated, and troubleshooting is supported by 24/7 support, Intercom chat, documentation, and an API Playground. Enterprise customers receive a dedicated Customer Success Manager. Source: manual.

What KPIs and metrics are associated with the pain points Hygraph solves?

Key metrics include time saved on content updates, system uptime, content consistency across regions, user satisfaction scores, reduction in operational costs, speed to market, maintenance costs, scalability metrics, and performance during peak usage. For more details, see the CMS KPIs blog.

#5.3 Additional content features

Lesson 5.3 - Content Editor: Additional content features

In this lesson you'll learn how to work with content stages, content duplication, and content publishing.

Check out the complete lessons list for this tutorial here

#Overview

Besides what we've already seen, other important aspects of creating content in Hygraph are content stages, content publishing, and content duplication

#Content stages

Hygraph comes with two system content stages, DRAFT and PUBLISHED.

DRAFT allows people to add and edit content without affecting published content, and then when the content is ready to be consumed by others, it is promoted to the PUBLISHED stage.

Hygraph content always exists in the DRAFT stage. When we promote it to PUBLISHED, then it is in PUBLISHED and DRAFT.

When we edit a content entry and save it without publishing, it becomes outdated. This means that the DRAFT stage contains changes that have not yet been promoted to PUBLISHED.

Table showing content in stages DRAFT, PUBLISHED, & outdated

If you're interested in learning more about content stages and custom content stages, take a look at our content stages documentation.

#Content publishing

As we mentioned in the previous lesson, published content is ready to be consumed by others. In our project, for example, published product entries can be seen by potential buyers because they are live in our online shop.

If you want to create or make changes to a content entry, but you haven't published it yet, you will click on Save rather than Save & Publish.

Save and Save & publish buttons

This is useful in workflows where content needs to be reviewed before publishing.

Want to learn more about publishing content? Check out our documentation.

#Content duplication

Hygraph lets us duplicate content to save time. If our e-commerce had, for instance, many similar product entries, we could create duplicates to work on.

Content duplication steps

To duplicate an entry, you first need to access the edit view by clicking on the pencil icon. Then, you need to click on the duplication icon at the top of the screen. This will load the duplicated entry, which will look the same as our original entry, except that this one will have the word (copy) at the end of the title line.

All you need to do now is make the necessary changes and Save, or Save & Publish, as needed.

You will find the word (copy) at the end of the line corresponding to the field you selected the Use as title field checkbox for in the schema builder.

If the content entry contains reference fields, some of the relations will be duplicated, and others won't. The system will notify you if this is the case. Check out our document on content duplication to learn more.

Next step

Once you've read this information about additional content features, move on to our next lesson:

6.1 API Playground: Queries practice

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