Collections
The Collections admin screen is where you make and manage Content Collections – a group of assets published to a URL that allows people to access your content without an account or downloading an app. The screen is a grid view of your Collections which can be filtered and sorted. (Note that Reach Basics campaigns can not make Collections and Reach Complete campaigns can make only one.) When you want to start adding assets to a Collection, you’ll want to come here first to make a Collection to put them in.
Adding and Editing Collections
To create a Collection, go to the “Collections” tab of the Reach Admin Dashboard and choose “Add Collection” in the top right, name your Collection and add any other text or customizations you choose like brand colors and banner image. You can also decide how your Assets will be sorted for visitors. Manual ordering will display assets as you arrange them on the assets tab. Random ordering will display assets in a different random order on every page load to rotate which assets get the most attention. When using any ordering besides Manual, you can pin assets if you want to override their natural sort position and show them at the top of the page.
Next click on the “Assets” tab to add assets to it from your Reach Content Library. You can provide suggested copy, more information about the asset, and even set an expiration date. If you’ve opted for Manual ordering, you can place Assets in the order you choose by dragging and dropping.
Publication and Expiration Dates
Each Collection may optionally have a publication date and/or an expiration date. This is a date and timestamp. The Collection will not become available until the publication date. Once the expiration date has passed, the Collection will no longer be shown to users. This is helpful when you’re adding Collections which are only applicable or relevant for a certain amount of time.
Public Listing of Collections
While all published Collections are publicly accessible for anyone with the link, publicly listed Collections may show up in search engine results and will be listed on the campaign’s public Collections list. You can choose whether or not to make your Collection publicly listed under “Visibility”.
All content actions, content reviews, and share feedback from users in other campaigns who are acting upon assets in your shared galleries will be visible to both your campaign and the campaign the users were working in when they took those actions or left that feedback. If a user interacts with one of your shared gallery assets but is not also a user in your campaign, they will appear to you in admin screens and exports as “Unknown User” but their actions and feedback will still be visible to you.
Sharing Your Collection
Once your Collection is created, share the URL with your supporters and they can then browse and share your content directly from there. Custom URLs for your Content Collection are also available.
Data from Content Collections
Data about downloads and shares via your Collections will be included in all your existing Reach data flows like Admin Dashboard graphs, CSV exports and BigQuery Mirrors. Download and shares from collection visitors will not include a User ID.
