Creating a Hushly Hub (V3)

A Content hub is a centralized online destination where a collection of content is organized and presented to users in a cohesive and structured manner. It serves as a repository or focal point for a variety of content related to a specific topic, brand, or audience. 

Hubs are a custom functionality. To get started with Hubs, you need to contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM) and they will enable the Hub. Once the Hub is enabled, you will see the Hubs in the Left Nav Menu.

To create a Hub, , setting up a domain is mandatory. The objective of defining a domain or subdomain is to make it seem to users that your resource center is part of your website, even though it is hosted on Hushly’s servers. Learn more about how to Manage a Domain & Adding a Domain. 

To Create a Hub follow the steps below:

1. From the Left Nav Menu, click Hubs.
   
   
   
   
2. On the Hubs page, click Create Hub.
   
   
   
   
3. In the Create Hub pop-up window, enter the Name and Description. Click the Select Domain drop-down list and Select the domain that will host the Hub. Once you associate a Hub with a domain it cannot be associated with another hub. Click Save.
   
   
   
4. By default, the Hub Options page is displayed with the Hub name and description with the values you entered earlier. The Name and Description fields are editable, the Domain field is not. We also see the version of the Hub displayed along with two other sections below, Settings and Branding.Note : Status displays the Hub's status (Draft/Active/Inactive).
            
5. Clicking on Settings, expands the Settings section.

             The section expands displaying various functionalities under Settings.

          Functionality under Settings:

• Hide from Search Engines: By default the toggle button is set to "No", search engines can index the hub . Toggling to "Yes" will prevent search engines from indexing the hub (it is up to the search engines to honor this request).

• Auto Play Videos: By default the toggle button is set to "Yes". When the user clicks on a video content in the hubs page, the SNLP page opens with the video content playing as soon as the page loads. Toggling the option to "No", the video content will not play automatically, you need to click on the play button to play the video.

• Language: You can select a language from the drop down options. Users come across many messages during the various stages of the opt-in process using the Hushly opt-in form. You can localize the Hushly messages in the following languages:
  • Chinese Simplified
  • Chinese Traditional 
  • Dutch
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

           Note : Language option selected at the Streams level has more weight than at the Hub level

• Form : From the Form drop-down, you can select the form you wish to use.  Forms can be created under Hushly left Navigation menu > Forms. If no form is selected the default Hushly form will be displayed in runtime. 
   

           Note: The selected Form will be shown to the Visitor for all the Assets in the Hub unless a 

            preferred Form is set particularly for it at the Stream item level.

• Enable RSS Feed:  To read more about enabling RSS Feeds, click here.

    6. If you wish to add Branding, expand the branding section.
 

• The section expands to display the various functionalities under Branding.
  
• Fav Icon URL: Enter the Fav icon URL. The fav icon is displayed when you open a web page.
  
  
  
• After adding the fav icon, the browser tab displays the fav icon. 
  
   
• Branding URL : Add a Branding URL - Click here to learn more about the Branding URL
  
  
  
• Company Logo : Clicking on the "+" (plus sign) opens a popup to select a logo from the Library (previously uploaded images) or you can upload a logo via "Upload File" option. 

           Note : Your company logo will appear across the Hub, Streams, SNLP, and ABM pages.

• Branding Content CSS Selector : Enter the CSS selector where you wish to render the hub contents. Examples: .content-body, or #page-body. This is will replace the your content on the website with the hub stream.

• Server Side Rendering : Server-side rendering (SSR) is a technique used in web development where the server generates the HTML content for a web page dynamically, and then sends the fully rendered page to the client's browser. This is in contrast to client-side rendering (CSR), where the browser downloads a basic HTML file and then JavaScript is used to render the content on the client side. 
  
  

Note: If the Server Side Rendering  is toggled to "Yes", this functionality will work. This is in Beta stage. 

7. Click Save.
 

8. Status: To activate the Hub, click Publish.

Note: You can only publish a Hub when you have added at least one Stream. Click here to learn how to add Streams to the Hub. 

Deactivate, Reactivate, or Delete a Hub:

• To disable the Hub, click Deactivate, the status will change to Inactive.
  
  
  

• To re-enable the Hub, click on Reactivate, the status should change to Active and display the Delete Hub button.
  
  
• To delete the Hub, click on Delete Hub.
  
  

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