Setting up a Web Article Asset

Modified on Thu, 7 Nov at 1:18 AM

To set up a Web Article Asset, you can follow the below steps:

From the Left Nav Menu, click Assets.
On the Assets page, click Upload Asset.
On the Create Asset pop-up window, select the Asset Type, Web Article.
In the Create Asset pop-up window, enter the Name of the Asset.
Enter the Title of the Asset. Important: When the name of an Asset reflects the content, it makes content categorization and selection easy.
The user is shown the Title when engaging with the Asset.
Click on Choose under Folder to select a Folder for the Asset. To learn more about Folders, click here
Select the Asset type from the Type drop-down list.
The Type list is defined at Setup > Asset Types.
By default, English is selected, you can select another language from the drop-down list.
The Ungated button is set to Yes by default and cannot be toggled to No.
Click Save.
You are redirected to the Content tab of the Web Article. On this tab, enter the document's content within the editor. The editor is an HTML editor, allowing you to configure HTML-based content.
To insert an image in the Editor, click on the Image Icon from the Menu bar.
Add the Source link and an alternative description for the image. Then, specify the width and height values. Click Save.
After adding the required elements in the editor, click Save in the top right corner of the page.

A confirmation message is displayed.
Click the Setup tab, to define the information of the Asset. Important: All the fields in the above window are grouped into sections, as per usage namely,
- Metadata: Name, Title, Description, Type, Language, and Fulfillment URL, Excerpt, Time and Folders.
- Thumbnails: Thumbnail 1 and Thumbnail 2.
- Options: Ungated, Opt-in Message, Hidden, and Email Template.
- SEO: SEO Title, Canonical URL, and SEO Description.
- If you define Custom or Catalog Fields using Setup > Field Management, the fields for the Asset show up in the Setup tab above.
The mandatory information fields of the Setup tab, Name, Title, Language, and Asset Type are filled with the values you have already configured for the Asset using the steps above. However, you can make changes to all of them.
An Excerpt gets automatically generated from the content uploaded providing a glimpse or sample of the content. It is limited to 200 characters.
Note: Excerpt is effective only on the V3 hub.
Enter a Description.
In the Options section by default, the Ungated button is set to Yes.
The Hidden button is set to No, to hide this Asset in Hubs, toggle the button to Yes.
Note: When you set an Asset to Hidden at the Asset Level, it will be hidden on all streams to which it has been added.
In the Thumbnails section, Upload Thumbnail 1 (500x272 pixels).
To upload a Thumbnail image for Hubs. Click on Thumbnail 2 and upload a file ((500x600 pixels).
In the SEO section, Enter the SEO Title. The content of this field appears as the title in search engine results. This title is relevant when you are deploying Hubs.
Enter an SEO Description. The content of this field appears as the description in search engine results. This description is relevant when you are deploying Hubs.
You can also use the Ask Mitab (SEO Title and Description) beta link to automatically recommend an option that is most suitable for your asset as its SEO Title and Description, click here to learn how.
Enter a valid URL in the Canonical URL field. Note: Search engines will crawl the content of each page to compile a massive index of all the words it sees and their location on each page. In addition, they process information included in key content tags and attributes, such as <title> tags and alt attributes. To prevent Search engines from crawling these duplicate versions of the same page, we can configure a Canonical URL.
If you have defined Custom or Catalog fields using Setup > Field Management, you can select the fields to associate with the Asset.
Click Save.