Email Message Editing Stage and Properties Panel

Updated on 08 Jan 2025
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The Xponent Communications Control (XCC) template creation area contains two main components: the main message Stage in the center and the Properties Panel on the left.

EditorWindow

You generally drag and drop content elements onto the Stage and then edit their properties. This is true for entire structures (for example, a single-column row) and individual content blocks (for example, a text content block).

The Properties Panel contains three sections:

CONTENT: This is where you choose and edit specific content elements that make up your message: buttons, images, and text blocks, for example.
ROWS: Here you can select different structural elements (e.g. a single-column vs. three-column row) to organize your content.
SETTINGS: This is where you define some overall settings that affect the entire message – for example, a default font family.

Message Editing Stage Item Descriptions

Item	Description
Editor Stage: Area you use to compose your email template.
Desktop View	Click to view and edit your email template in Desktop mode.
Mobile Portrait View	Click to view and edit your email template in Mobile Portrait mode.
Mobile Landscape View	Click to view and edit your email template in Mobile Landscape mode.
Template name/Save	Identifies your template name. Click the disk icon to save your template.
Clone/Delete	Click the down arrow to view options to clone or delete your template.
Channel/Status indicator	Identifies the channel to which the template belongs and the template status.
Convert to/Create New Click the + icon on the UI to access options for converting an email template to SMS or creating templates for different channels.
Convert to	The Convert to SMS feature allows you to convert an email template into an SMS template. Only the alphanumeric content will be included, excluding any multimedia such as images or videos. The converted SMS template will be saved with the same name as the original email template and will be grouped together for easy access.
Create New	This feature allows users to create templates for different channels, such as SMS and MMS, using the same name as an existing Email template within the template editor. The newly created templates are blank but can be easily populated by copying content from other templates. Each channel template opens in a new tab, and all templates with the same name are grouped together on the dashboard for streamlined organization. Using one Email template, you can create only one SMS template and one MMS template with the same name. Once these templates are created, the + icon will no longer be available. To create a new template with a similar name, you must first delete the existing one.
Notifications	Click to view and manage notifications you have set up.
Preview	Click to toggle Preview mode on and off.
Test Send Information	Click to open your default email settings for configuring test email information, including the following: Subject – The subject that appears in your recipients' inbox. From Name – The name that appears in the recipients' inbox. From Email Local Part – The part of the email address before the @ symbol that appears' in the recipients' inbox. Reply To – The email address to which recipients' reply to.
Send test email	Click to open your default email settings for sending test emails: Enter the email ID to which the test email will be sent. Multiple email IDs can be added, separated by commas. Click "Send Test" to send the test email, or click "Cancel" to cancel the email sending process.
Submit for review	Click this menu to display options to submit your template for review or to send a test email.
Stage	Area you drag and drop content elements to build your email template.

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