Guides are individual sections focusing on one aspect of your brand. Guides will be available as separate tiles on the Brand Guidelines overview page. You can set up guide covers to give each tile an individual and distinctive look.
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Creating and managing guides
Guide visibility
Guide covers
Go to Brand Guidelines and click the 
button.
Enter a title for your new guide and click Create.
Go to Brand Guidelines.
Hover over the guide for which you want to change the title and click the icon.
Click Edit title and modify the title in the Guide title box.
Click Save to save the changes.
For each guide the visibility needs to be set up. There are two types of visibility.
Visible to editors
By default guides are only visible to users who can manage Brand Guidelines. This allows editors to first create and manage the content of a guide before making it available to all users. On the guide overview page you can recognize these guides by the 
icon below the thumbnails. When you open a guide and see the icon in the top bar, you know it is only visible to editors.
Visible to (specific) portal users
Guides with this visibility can be viewed by all (specified) users who have access to Brand Guidelines. On the guide overview page you can recognize these guides by the 
icon below the thumbnails. When you open a guide and see the icon in the top bar, you know it is visible to all (specified) users who have access to Brand Guidelines.
By default, guides are only visible to editors. For each individual guide the guide visibility needs to be set up. Follow the steps below.
Go to Brand Guidelines.
Hover over the guide for which you want to change the guide visibility, click the
icon and click Guide visibility.-
Select the user who is allowed to view the guide. Hover over the name of a user and click the
icon. Alternatively, you can toggle the Allow all portal users to view Portal Usage Guidelines switch to make the guide visible to all users.Note
Depending on the setup of your portal this switch may not be available.
(Optional) Repeat the previous step to add other users.
Click Save to save the changes.
The guide is now visible for the selected user(s) and for all users who manage guides.
Note
By setting the visibility for a guide, the pages of that guide do not automatically become visible as well. Pages still need to be published before they become visible.
Go to Brand Guidelines.
Hover over the guide you want to hide, click the
icon and click Guide visibility.-
Deselect all the selected users. Hover over the name of a selected user and click the
icon. If the Allow all portal users to view Portal Usage Guidelines switch was on, make sure to untoggle it in order to hide the guide for all users.Note
Depending on the setup of your portal this switch may not be available.
Click Save to save the changes.
The guide and the published pages that belong to this guide can now only be accessed by editors. It will no longer be visible to the deselected users with access to Brand Guidelines.
Do you want to check how a guide looks like on the user side? Follow the steps below to check the live version of a guide.
Open the guide that you want to see live.
Click the icon in the top bar and click View live version.
The live version of your guide will open in a new browser tab. You will only see the pages that are currently published.
With guide covers you can set up a cover image for your guides. This allows you to create a distinguishable look and feel for each guide making sure your users can easily find the content they need.
Go to Brand Guidelines.
Hover over the guide for which you want to set up a guide cover, click the
icon and click Set Guide Cover.Filter or search for the asset you want to use, select it and click Add media.
Go to Brand Guidelines.
Hover over the guide for which you want to change the guide cover, click the
icon and click Set Guide Cover.Filter or search for the asset you want to use, select it and click Add media.
Go to Brand Guidelines.
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Hover over the guide for which you want to remove the guide cover and click Remove Guide Cover.
Note
This action is permanent and cannot be undone.
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