Create and manage spaces

Martina Farkasova

10 minutes

Spaces

Spaces introduce an additional layer in Kontent.ai that helps you provide a channel-specific context for your content. No more juggling multiple websites in separate projects and thus creating unwanted silos. See how spaces add the missing piece to the headless puzzle.

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Why spaces are convenient

Spaces offer the convenience of:

Providing specific channel previews of your content.
Accessing and reusing content from collections connected to the particular space.
Managing multiple websites under a project.
Utilizing a single content model across various channels.

Create a space

Every environment can have several spaces. You can use different domains and preview URLs for each space.

To manage spaces, you need the Manage spaces role permission.

In Environment settings, select Spaces.
Click Create new space.
Type the new space name.
Click Save.

Create as many spaces as you need.

Add a root item

The root item serves as the top-level unit of your navigation hierarchy. You can use any content item as a root item; however, it needs to include a subpages element. To start building the navigation, you need to assign a root item to your space.

In Environment settings, select Spaces.
Select a space to configure.
Create or add an existing root item.
Click Save.

Multiple previews with spaces

The most significant benefit spaces bring you is the ability to set up multiple previews within one project. This is especially useful if you use the same project for different brands or channels. Each of such divisions can be represented by one space. Additionally, you can use spaces with live preview.

If you’re working on a multi-regional or multi-brand project, you can use spaces to set up multiple previews for your websites.

Tip: See how spaces work in a real-world scenario in our multi-brand sample project.

Once you’re done, go to Environment settings > Preview URLs > Space domains and type in the domain for each space, such as preview.example.org.

Check out how to set up multiple previews in your project.

Connect spaces to collections

Assign collections to spaces to create a clear overview of what content belongs to which space. Collections can be space-specific (assigned to only one space) or shared across multiple spaces.To assign collections to spaces:

In Environment settings, select Spaces.
Click a space to open its card for editing.
In the Collections dropdown menu, select collections to assign them to the space.
Click Save.