When you intend to publish for multiple channels, using a separate project for each channel may be tempting. However, channels share most of the content and a content model, so using multiple projects would make your content operations cumbersome, manual, and error-prone.This is where spaces come in, the missing piece to your headless puzzle.
What’s a space?
Spaces provide an additional layer in Kontent.ai to help you present a channel-specific context for your content. It removes the hassle of managing multiple websites across different projects, avoiding unnecessary silos.The benefits of having spaces are more than just presenting channel-specific context. From assigning dedicated collections to managing multiple websites and previews, spaces ease your content creators’ work when producing content for a specific website or brand. Each space comes with its Web Spotlight and preview, so your teams can preview and edit the content of each website separately.
How do spaces and collections differ and work together?
Let’s look into how collections and spaces differ but complement each other in a cohesive content strategy. First, in the section below, we’ll quickly recap Ficto Luxe’s use of collections from the previous lesson and how they connect with spaces.
The difference
Collections are the foundation for organizing your content items and assets. They are helpful for categorizing content according to business structure and needs.To visualize, Ficto Luxe has three brands: Ficto Glow (North America), Ficto Rouge (Europe), and Ficto Derma (Asia). A specific collection represents each regional brand. The collections consist of content items, workflow steps, and assets.
In contrast, spaces reflect the websites or channels the company uses to reach its customers. Each space serves a different region and is tailored for specific customer experiences, but all under the Ficto Luxe brand umbrella.
The connection
Collections enable the company to manage its diverse content centrally. When sharing this content with the audience, spaces step in.Content creators can utilize the content from the collections and adapt it for each specific brand’s website, ensuring that the brand message remains consistent across all platforms.To streamline the content operations for the three brands that use three corresponding websites, Ficto Luxe creates a space for each regional website and connects those spaces to their related collections.This connection ensures that content creators preview the content in the proper context. To view content in the proper context, content creators need to assign their newly created content to the right collection connected to the respective space. Plus, this creates a streamlined workflow where content is sorted and showcased effectively.Reusing content is pivotal for efficient content production. For this reason, collections may be shared across selected or all your spaces. With such a setup, content creators can seamlessly reuse content while maintaining a clear picture of which website they’re creating content for and what preview option to select.The interconnection between spaces and collections maximizes the reach and effectiveness of your content strategy.
Taxonomy as an alternative
Spaces are suitable for website content such as landing pages, site-wide campaigns, product listings, and so on. Spaces offer a stable representation of your content where you can control how you update it. You can ensure consistency and manageability across multiple channels or websites.However, spaces will not fit highly dynamic, structured, and reiterative content, for example, news tickers, social media feeds, and live flight updates. This is because spaces ensure consistent representation of content, which might not be adaptable enough for content that requires frequent changes. Dynamic content demands more flexibility and adaptability. Depending on context or user interaction, it often needs to be categorized in various ways. For this purpose, taxonomy offers an alternative. Here are the advantages of using taxonomies:
A project to manage global operations including spaces, collections, content model, and settings. It illustrates the connection between spaces and collections for content representation, where team members work on accessible content.
Ficto Luxe’s collections and their different types of content: Products, Articles, and Help section
Each collection is connected to a space, where the content is viewable in preview and in Web Spotlight.
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Ficto Glow has two collections assigned to its space. Since these two brands produce content about skin care, Ficto Glow leverages the skin care research from Ficto Derma to advocate their products.
Switching between multiple previews in a content item
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