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Single-use content? No problem!

Martina Farkasova, Jan Cerman

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Reusing existing content or creating relationships between content items sounds great and efficient, right? But let’s take it from the ground up. Imagine you need to embed content like a tweet or a Youtube video. You want to use it in one place only, not reuse it. Sure, no problem! That’s what components are for.Discover the single-use structured content before we dive deeper.

The easiest way to add structure to your content is to use your first superpower: components. Components are really flexible. You can embed them into any rich text element if components are allowed there. Single-use content is sometimes also referred to as one-off, channel

-specific, or non-reusable. You’ll find components useful for embedding images, tweets, videos, quotes, code samples, and much more.

In essence, components are just like any other content item with a set of elements

You can insert content components into rich text elements by clicking

and then

. You can even insert components in other components and go up to 6 levels deep.Let’s now jump in and look at how to work with components in the video below.

and

content groups

. The only difference is that they are for single-use embedded content, so they don’t appear in your content inventory. This also means that you can’t reuse them in other content items.

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Add components into rich text

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Create single-use content

Add components into rich text

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You can insert structured components like callouts right into your text with just a few clicks.

Single-use content? No problem! | Kontent.ai Learn

From single-use to re-useIf you later find another use for the content in your component, you can always convert it to a content item

by clicking

This conversion cannot be undone. If done by accident, archive the new item and create your component again.