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SaaS Dashboard and shared blocks

03 September 2024

Custom block sharing across websites

If you manage multiple websites (or tens or hundreds, being a SaaS), you might want to reuse blocks created for one website on another. A neat feature of N1ED is the ability to share custom block categories across websites.

Sharing of individual blocks is not supported, so please consider organizing your blocks into convenient groups when creating new custom blocks or regrouping existing ones. Also, note that only the new Bootstrap Blocks dialog can display these imported blocks, so make sure to enable it for all your websites (API keys).

Blocks dialog with imported blocks
Blocks dialog with imported blocks

Block sharing works in a very simple way: using the Dashboard, you select a source website (API key) and specify which block categories to share. They immediately appear on other websites (API keys) in the Bootstrap Blocks dialog with permissions to view and insert them, but not to modify, update, or delete them from the library.

Create a sharing rule
Create a sharing rule

There are two ways to export block categories: you can either share them with every other website you have or specify individual websites (API keys). Exporting to all websites is useful when you want these blocks to be visible on any newly created websites (API keys) in the future.

Dialog of sharing rule
Sharing rule dialog