Import content items
This lesson shows you how to import a single content item using Management API. In short, to import content, you define a content type for the imported content if it’s not created already. Then, you’ll create a new content item and add content to its variants.
1. Define a content type for the content item
Before importing your content, you need to define a content type for the items you want to import. The content type in this example is named Cafe (with the codename and external ID both as cafe) and contains a few elements. To add a content type, send a POST request with these properties:- The display name of the new content type.
- (Optional) The codename of the content type. If you don’t specify the codename, it will be generated from the content type’s display name. However, you can change the codename later.
- (Optional) The external ID can be used as a unique identifier to retrieve content from a different system. See more about how to use different identifiers.
- A set of the elements you want to have in your content type.
ManagementClient definition when using an SDK).
// Tip: Find more about .NET SDKs at https://kontent.ai/learn/net
using Kontent.Ai.Management;
var client = new ManagementClient(new ManagementOptions
{
ApiKey = "KONTENT_AI_MANAGEMENT_API_KEY",
EnvironmentId = "KONTENT_AI_ENVIRONMENT_ID"
});
var response = await client.CreateContentTypeAsync(new ContentTypeCreateModel
{
Codename = "cafe",
Name = "Cafe",
ExternalId = "cafe",
Elements = new ElementMetadataBase[]
{
new NumberElementMetadataModel
{
Name = "Price per uni",
Codename = "price_per_unit",
},
new GuidelinesElementMetadataModel
{
Guidelines = "<h2>Keep Guidelines where the creative process happens.</h2>\n<p>These are sample guidelines that you can place for the whole content item. It’s a place where you can include your content brief, voice and tone recommendations or the URL to a wireframe, so the author will have all the relevant instructions at hand before writing a single line.</p>\n<p>Besides overview guidelines, you can include instructions for each particular content element, as you will see below.</p>",
Codename = "n2f836bce_e062_b2cd_5265_f5c3be3aa6f5",
},
new TextElementMetadataModel
{
Name = "Street",
ExternalId = "street",
},
new TextElementMetadataModel
{
Name = "City",
ExternalId = "city",
},
new TextElementMetadataModel
{
Name = "Country",
ExternalId = "country",
},
new TextElementMetadataModel
{
Name = "State",
ExternalId = "state",
},
new TextElementMetadataModel
{
Name = "ZIP code",
ExternalId = "zip_code",
},
new TextElementMetadataModel
{
Name = "Email",
ExternalId = "email",
},
new TextElementMetadataModel
{
Name = "Phone",
ExternalId = "phone",
},
new AssetElementMetadataModel
{
Name = "Photo",
Codename = "photo"
}
}
});
{
"id": "f15799a1-dff0-5216-a014-e963f9ea6bbc",
"codename": "cafe",
"last_modified": "2019-10-08T12:47:27.4261844Z",
"external_id": "cafe",
"name": "Cafe",
"content_groups": [],
"elements": [
{
"name": "Price per unit",
"guidelines": null,
"is_required": false,
"type": "number",
"id": "965cf18c-998a-456b-bee3-91defdf39782",
"codename": "price_per_unit"
},
{
"guidelines": "<h2>Keep Guidelines where the creative process happens.</h2>\n<p>These are sample guidelines that you can place for the whole content item. It’s a place where you can include your content brief, voice and tone recommendations or the URL to a wireframe, so the author will have all the relevant instructions at hand before writing a single line.</p>\n<p>Besides overview guidelines, you can include instructions for each particular content element, as you will see below.</p>",
"type": "guidelines",
"id": "8816e7d0-ca5e-4cfa-88b4-c1944862ff9f",
"codename": "n8e317a38_e3bc_4d98_a63d_f1e336c5a9e6"
},
{
"maximum_text_length": null,
"name": "Street",
"guidelines": null,
"is_required": false,
"type": "text",
"id": "2b7b256c-73cc-4be0-b749-4c410209df02",
"codename": "street"
},
{
"maximum_text_length": null,
"name": "City",
"guidelines": null,
"is_required": false,
"type": "text",
"id": "fa17f73a-833c-4cf2-aa7b-3b5c4edad6b3",
"codename": "city"
},
{
"maximum_text_length": null,
"name": "Country",
"guidelines": null,
"is_required": false,
"type": "text",
"id": "2b36b05e-5f4f-4630-b502-154f5b3b90c3",
"codename": "country"
},
{
"maximum_text_length": null,
"name": "State",
"guidelines": null,
"is_required": false,
"type": "text",
"id": "3638f2cd-3fea-4a4e-a6b6-bdd39f3b9f66",
"codename": "state"
},
{
"maximum_text_length": null,
"name": "ZIP Code",
"guidelines": null,
"is_required": false,
"type": "text",
"id": "35ad677a-cfe5-4573-814d-5895e3de8396",
"codename": "zip_code"
},
{
"maximum_text_length": null,
"name": "Phone",
"guidelines": null,
"is_required": false,
"type": "text",
"id": "4ec54355-4177-4b29-9a16-b25a7c8fba26",
"codename": "phone"
},
{
"maximum_text_length": null,
"name": "Email",
"guidelines": null,
"is_required": false,
"type": "text",
"id": "9bc4b679-4353-40c7-bcfd-145110ced7d9",
"codename": "email"
},
{
"asset_count_limit": null,
"maximum_file_size": null,
"allowed_file_types": "any",
"image_width_limit": null,
"image_height_limit": null,
"name": "Photo",
"guidelines": null,
"is_required": false,
"type": "asset",
"id": "1693ecd3-fb15-4d56-975a-4b8dbdedf65b",
"codename": "photo"
}
]
}2. Import content to a content item
Importing a content item consists of two tasks. That’s because, technically, each content item is a wrapper that contains language variants. Variants then hold the content. This enables content to be localized but the same approach applies to projects with one language as well.
What content items consist of
2a. Create a content item
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