Streams serve as containers to organize your content according to your brand or execution needs. Once created, you can tag specific content to these streams, which form the basis of the content displayed in your widgets. This flexibility is particularly beneficial for creating multiple widgets across different sites or various pages on a single site, such as a product description page.
Types of Streams
Manual Streams - created by a user on an ad hoc basis to organize photos.
Product or Property Streams - generated from a product feed and updated nightly to reflect feed changes. Each product in this feed is associated with its own stream.
Streams are searchable, facilitating easy navigation through a large number of streams or products. You can view the number of photos in a given stream, assign URLs, and much more.
Creating a new manual Stream
Navigate to the left-side Menu > UGC > Curate > Streams.
In the top right corner, click New Stream.
Give the stream a name, URL, and Base Image (if it's a product or property stream or a stream you want to link to in the future).
If it's NOT a product or property stream, or a stream you don't want users to see on your site, select 'Hide Stream from Widget Lightbox'.
Click Save.
Advanced Settings
Moderate Picture Uploads: Uncheck this box to bypass the moderation process and automatically publish content pre-assigned to a stream. This will not work for brands that use express moderation or moderation services. Note: This is not recommended for brands using express moderation or moderation services, as it increases the risk of publishing off-brand content
📣 IMPORTANT NOTE
This is not recommended since removing the layer of moderation increases the chance that you'll publish off-brand content.
Hide Stream from Widget Lightbox: Uncheck if this is not a product or property stream or if you don't want to display this stream on your site.
Searching for a Stream
Find any product or property stream by entering the product name in the search bar below the page title, or by filtering based on the type of stream.
Modifying a Stream
Clicking on any of the stream's main images opens the Edit Stream window. In the Stream Information section, you can edit the stream's Name, Description, URL, Base Image, and set stream categories. You can also edit by clicking the pencil icon in the top left corner of the Stream box.
If you wish to delete a Stream, simply click the trash icon in the top left corner of the Stream box.
Featured Content
The Featured Content tool allows you to manually select the content displayed in your widget. To enable it, make sure that Manual Sorting is activated for your widgets.
You can modify the Featured Content from a Stream by opening up the Stream after it's been populated with content and clicking on the Featured Content button. From there you can:
Choose the number of images to manually arrange using the slider (e.g., selecting 8 means manually selecting the first 8 images in your widget).
Drag and drop individual images to your preferred order or hold down (PC: Ctrl | Mac: Cmd) to select multiple images for dragging and dropping.
Click Save, and you should see a success message prompting you to check your widget settings.
To reflect the sort order on your site:
Select the widget instance.
In the Sorting Preferences section, click Manual.
Click Save. The sort order will be visible on your site in approximately one hour.
📣 IMPORTANT NOTES
Images tagged in the Moderation Queue or Save For Later will not appear in the Featured Content section.
Take note of the widget instance linked to this stream and the number of photos displayed (e.g., a carousel has a maximum of 25 photos).
You can customize the sort order of up to 40 photos. If the widget instance displays more than 40 photos, all content beyond the first 40 will be sorted chronologically.
Manual sorting is only compatible with widget instances using a stream or dynamic stream source. For wall widgets, manual sorting is compatible only with stream-based filters; category-based filters are not supported.
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