Planning content in the Studio Calendar

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  • Align - Employee Communications

You can easily plan the distribution of your multichannels, newsletters, and SMS messages using the Studio Calendar. It's designed to help you see your content clearly, whether in a calendar view or a simple list, with all details at a glance. 

You can access the calendar from the Calendar tab in the Studio if you have "Access Studio" permission.

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Filter the calendar

You can filter the calendar to narrow the content shown on it:

  • Only my work: Only show content you're the author of. This makes it easy to see only the content you can edit, duplicate, unpublish, etc. 
  • Campaigns: Only show content that's been tagged with specific campaign(s). Content tagged with a campaign displays a colored line at the top of the content card.
  • View: Decide to display or hide certain content from the calendar:
  • Filter: Show content that match specific criteria, including content by a specific author, publisher, status, audience, channel, keywords, time range, and more. In the Contains filter, you can only search for full keyword(s) in the content's title; e.g., searching for only "mark" will not show content with a title including the word "marketing."

After applying any filters, you can select Filter > Reset to return to an unfiltered view of the calendar.

Open the mini preview

On the calendar, you can see a preview of each content item on the day it was or will be published. To view more information about the content item, including the author, communication channels, audience, languages, and analytics, select the content to open a preview.

You can take action on content you created. You cannot manage other users' content.

  • Duplicate: By selecting , you can duplicate the content item, which will open the editor with the duplicated item's information pre-filled.
  • Open full post: By selecting open icon.png, you can open the content item in the editor to make edits to it.

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Drag and drop content

You can drag and drop your created content in the calendar to plan your communications and adjust scheduling dates. You can only manage your own content; you cannot move content created by other users.

  • Already scheduled items: You can reschedule your already-scheduled content items by dragging and dropping them to another day. The publishing time will remain the same as previously set.
  • Drafts: Any drafts you've created but not scheduled appear in the calendar's left sidebar. You can drag and drop your drafts into the calendar to plan them for that day. A content item dragged from the draft section and dropped on a day becomes a planned draft; it's not automatically scheduled for that day. You still need to open and schedule the content.

To unplan a draft or cancel a scheduled content item, simply drag it back to the draft section. If your item is pending approval or already approved, you need to withdraw it from approval before you can drag it.

dragging and dropping posts in the calendar

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