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  • Get started
    • Contentful web app overview
    • Spaces and organizations
    • Beginner's guide to Contentful
    • Preview center: release lifecycle
    • Localization in Contentful
    • Contentful glossary
    • Manage cookie consent
    • How to get help and support
  • Content models
    • Content modeling basics
    • Content modeling patterns
    • Visual Modeler
  • Content types
    • Create a content type
    • Update a content type
    • Configure a content type
    • Duplicate a content type
    • Delete a content type
  • Fields
    • Add a field
    • Configure a field
    • Available validations
      • Regular Expression (Regex)
      • RE2JS regular expression engine FAQs
    • Add validations to existing fields
      • Validations for hidden and required fields
    • Default values
    • Hide field when editing
    • Omit from API response
    • Set up field groups
    • Delete a field
  • Content and entries
    • Add a new entry
    • The entry editor
    • Entry editor sidebar overview
    • Tables in Rich Text fields
    • Tasks
    • Versions
    • Comments
    • Content search
    • Bulk actions
    • Create content views
    • Formatting with Google Docs
  • Scheduled publishing
    • Scheduled content page
    • Schedule an entry
    • View scheduled actions
  • References
    • Reference view overview
    • Publish references
    • Navigate and validate references
    • Remove reference view
  • Content preview
    • Live preview
    • Live preview publishing
  • Media
    • Assets
      • Add new assets
      • Add multiple assets
      • Publish an asset
      • Delete an asset
      • Archive an asset
      • Edit image assets
      • Bulk actions for assets
      • Working with a DAM service
      • Name and describe assets
      • Add extra information to an asset
      • Multiple image resolutions
    • Embargoed assets
      • Get started with embargoed assets
      • Protection modes for embargoed assets
      • Glossary for embargoed assets
      • FAQs for embargoed assets
    • Asset file availability
  • Localization
    • Manage locales
    • Locale-based publishing
    • Enable locales for fields
    • Add locales to an entry
    • Add locales to an asset
    • Localization strategies
  • Users and teams
    • Users
      • Invite users
      • Edit users
      • Remove users
    • Teams
      • Add teams to a space
      • Create a team
      • Add team members
      • View team memberships
      • Use teams to manage space access
      • Use teams to manage organization access
  • Roles
    • Organization roles
    • Space roles
      • Manage space roles and permissions
      • Custom roles and permissions
      • Content permissions
      • Allow and Deny rules
      • Manage access to environments
      • Create a custom role
      • Assign a role to a user
      • Assign multiple roles to a user
      • Edit a custom role
      • Delete a custom role
  • Organizations
    • Find organization ID
    • Change organization name
    • Delete an organization
  • Spaces
    • Find space ID
    • Change space name
    • Trial spaces
    • Delete a space
    • Templated spaces
    • Archived spaces
  • Environments
    • Create an environment
    • Create an environment alias
    • Change target of the environment alias
    • Manage access to environments
  • Tags
    • Create tags
    • Content permissions with tags
    • Granting permissions to manage tags
    • Add tags to multiple entries at once
    • Filtering content by tag
    • Deleting tags
  • Administration
    • Account settings
      • Log in to Contentful web app
      • Change or reset password
      • Change email address
      • User profile
      • Change name
      • Change profile picture
      • View space memberships
      • View organization memberships
      • Unlock an account
      • Delete an account
      • Account suspension
    • Billing and subscription
      • Manage space licenses
      • View your subscription plan
      • Invoices
      • Add billing details to your organization
      • Change billing currency
      • Change credit card details
      • FAQs for the Contentful Free plan
      • Cancel a space license 
      • Cancel subscription
    • Usage
      • Usage limits
      • Asset bandwidth
      • Usage alerts
    • Access tools
      • Okta user provisioning integration with SCIM
      • OneLogin user provisioning integration with SCIM
      • Azure user provisioning integration with SCIM
      • Configure Ping SCIM user provisioning
      • SCIM FAQ
    • Data export
    • Manage Space add-ons
  • Studio
    • Experiences
      • Enable Experiences in spaces
      • Configure Experiences
      • Set up role for Experiences
      • Create an experience
      • Create a pattern
      • Editable patterns
      • Nested patterns
      • Organize patterns into folders
      • Bind content
      • Pre-bind content in Experiences
      • Publish an experience
      • Scheduled publishing in Experiences
      • Version history in Experiences
  • Personalization
    • Install Contentful Personalization
    • Set up Contentful Personalization
    • Data buckets
    • Metrics
      • Set up metrics
    • Optimization hub
    • Ninetailed Insights
    • Audience insights
    • Component Insights
    • Experience Insights
    • Audiences
      • Rule types
      • Operators
      • Conditions
      • Linked audiences
    • Ninetailed Experiences
      • Experiments
      • Personalizations
      • Linked experiences
      • Custom flags
    • Merge tags
    • Preview
    • AI Capabilities
    • Data connectors
      • Salesforce CRM
      • Klaviyo
      • Shopify data connector
      • SAP Emarsys
      • Albacross
      • Segment
      • Zapier
  • AI & Automations
    • AI Actions
      • AI Actions: roles and permissions
      • Templates for AI Actions
      • Work with AI Actions
      • AI Actions: instructions
      • AI Actions: variables
      • AI Actions: Playground testing and publish
      • AI Actions in entry editor
      • AI Actions: Usage calculation
      • AI Actions: Bring your own model
    • Workflows
      • Create a Workflow
      • Workflows management
      • Configuring workflows to entry editor sidebar
      • Using Workflows in an entry
      • Multiple workflows to content types
      • Workflows roles and permissions
      • Workflows steps management
      • Workflow step change permissions
      • Workflow automations
      • Workflow rules: editing and publishing permissions
      • Workflow steps: Search, filter and save views  
      • Localized workflows
  • Reuse content structures
    • Content model templates
      • Roles and permissions for Content model templates
      • Supported features for content model templates
      • Create a template
      • Create a template for Templated spaces
      • Edit a template version
      • Install a template
      • Template strategies
    • Merge app
    • Templated Spaces
  • Connect content
    • Cross-space references
      • Cross-space references strategies
      • Roles and permissions for Cross-space references
      • Link content across multiple spaces
      • Reference existing content from another space
      • Cross-space references in Rich text fields: embedded block entries
      • Cross-space references in Rich Text fields: embedded inline entries
      • Cross-space references in Rich text fields: hyperlink to entries
      • FAQs for retrieval of linked resource links
    • Native external references
      • Glossary for Native external references
    • Custom external references
      • Custom external references with Shopify
      • Custom external references with commercetools
      • Custom external references with Cloudinary
  • Functions
    • Supported functions
  • Timeline
    • Create a Timeline release
    • Preview your Timeline releases
    • Timeline: best practices
  • Launch
    • Install Launch
    • Creating and managing releases
      • What is a release?
      • Set up a release
      • Manage a release
      • View scheduled releases in the Calendar
  • Taxonomy
    • Taxonomy glossary
    • Taxonomy manager
    • Application of taxonomy
      • Content type validations
      • Assignment of taxonomy
    • Taxonomy: search and filter
    • AI-powered taxonomy assignment
    • Taxonomy localization
  • Token management
    • Personal Access Tokens
  • Apps
    • Submit app to Contentful Marketplace
    • Apps across spaces
    • Marketplace Changelog
    • App Framework FAQ
    • AI Content Generator
    • AI Image Generator App Guide
    • AI Image Tagging
    • AI Content Generator powered by Amazon Bedrock
    • AWS Amplify
    • Braze
    • Bynder
    • Cloudinary
    • Commerce Layer
    • Commercetools
    • Contenda
    • Dropbox
    • Google Analytics 4
      • Set up a Service Account for Google Analytics 4 Integration
    • Hubspot
    • Image Focal Point
    • Iterable
    • Jira Cloud
    • Microsoft Teams App Guide
    • Netlify
    • Optimizely
    • Salesforce Commerce Cloud Connector
    • Contentful Connector for SAP Commerce Cloud
    • Shopify
    • Slack
    • Smartling
    • Typeform
    • Vercel
    • Wistia
  • Certification and training
    • Verified skills and certifications
    • Training and workshops
  • Guides
    • Markdown documentation
    • Dynamic microcopy
    • CMS as code
    • Content platform
    • Topics and assemblies
  • Knowledge base
    • Why native Android apps need an Android CMS
    • Hacking Contentful
    • Using Contentful's CMS with static site generators
    • How to get started with our JavaScript SDK
    • Contentful + PHP
    • Contentful plus Ruby
    • Learn what Contentful is and how to use it
    • Attribution
    • Incoming links, tagging and content discovery
    • Selecting an iOS CMS
    • A Jamstack-ready CMS
    • A guide to using JAMstack with Contentful
    • JavaScript CMS
    • Fair Use Policy and System Limits (Legacy, 2016)
    • Fair Use Policy (Legacy, 2017)
    • Fair Use Policy (Legacy, 2018)
    • Fair Use Policy (Legacy 2020)
    • Contentful legacy plan limits (April 2018)
    • Contentful legacy plan limits (December 2017)
    • Contentful legacy plan limits (July 2017)
    • Contentful legacy plan limits (October 2016)
    • Mobile backend as a service (MBaaS)
    • Mobile content management system (CMS)
    • Secure password for signing up with Contentful
    • How to engage effectively with support
    • Modeling navigation
  • FAQ
    • About Contentful
    • APIs
    • Backup, security and hosting
    • Basics
    • Best practices
    • Billing
    • Client libraries
    • Content migrations
    • Content operations
    • Contentful AI functionality
    • Environments
    • EU data residency
    • Extensibility
    • Legacy spaces
    • Managing organizations and spaces
    • Personal access tokens
    • Rich text
    • Search and content organization
    • Security and privacy
    • Single sign-on (SSO)
    • SSO x509 certificate expiration
    • Technology and features
    • Terminology
    • Two-factor authentication (2FA)
    • Versioning
    • Web app
    • Webhooks
  • Get started
    • Contentful web app overview
    • Spaces and organizations
    • Beginner's guide to Contentful
    • Preview center: release lifecycle
    • Localization in Contentful
    • Contentful glossary
    • Manage cookie consent
    • How to get help and support
  • Content models
    • Content modeling basics
    • Content modeling patterns
    • Visual Modeler
  • Content types
    • Create a content type
    • Update a content type
    • Configure a content type
    • Duplicate a content type
    • Delete a content type
  • Fields
    • Add a field
    • Configure a field
    • Available validations
      • Regular Expression (Regex)
      • RE2JS regular expression engine FAQs
    • Add validations to existing fields
      • Validations for hidden and required fields
    • Default values
    • Hide field when editing
    • Omit from API response
    • Set up field groups
    • Delete a field
  • Content and entries
    • Add a new entry
    • The entry editor
    • Entry editor sidebar overview
    • Tables in Rich Text fields
    • Tasks
    • Versions
    • Comments
    • Content search
    • Bulk actions
    • Create content views
    • Formatting with Google Docs
  • Scheduled publishing
    • Scheduled content page
    • Schedule an entry
    • View scheduled actions
  • References
    • Reference view overview
    • Publish references
    • Navigate and validate references
    • Remove reference view
  • Content preview
    • Live preview
    • Live preview publishing
  • Media
    • Assets
      • Add new assets
      • Add multiple assets
      • Publish an asset
      • Delete an asset
      • Archive an asset
      • Edit image assets
      • Bulk actions for assets
      • Working with a DAM service
      • Name and describe assets
      • Add extra information to an asset
      • Multiple image resolutions
    • Embargoed assets
      • Get started with embargoed assets
      • Protection modes for embargoed assets
      • Glossary for embargoed assets
      • FAQs for embargoed assets
    • Asset file availability
  • Localization
    • Manage locales
    • Locale-based publishing
    • Enable locales for fields
    • Add locales to an entry
    • Add locales to an asset
    • Localization strategies
  • Users and teams
    • Users
      • Invite users
      • Edit users
      • Remove users
    • Teams
      • Add teams to a space
      • Create a team
      • Add team members
      • View team memberships
      • Use teams to manage space access
      • Use teams to manage organization access
  • Roles
    • Organization roles
    • Space roles
      • Manage space roles and permissions
      • Custom roles and permissions
      • Content permissions
      • Allow and Deny rules
      • Manage access to environments
      • Create a custom role
      • Assign a role to a user
      • Assign multiple roles to a user
      • Edit a custom role
      • Delete a custom role
  • Organizations
    • Find organization ID
    • Change organization name
    • Delete an organization
  • Spaces
    • Find space ID
    • Change space name
    • Trial spaces
    • Delete a space
    • Templated spaces
    • Archived spaces
  • Environments
    • Create an environment
    • Create an environment alias
    • Change target of the environment alias
    • Manage access to environments
  • Tags
    • Create tags
    • Content permissions with tags
    • Granting permissions to manage tags
    • Add tags to multiple entries at once
    • Filtering content by tag
    • Deleting tags
  • Administration
    • Account settings
      • Log in to Contentful web app
      • Change or reset password
      • Change email address
      • User profile
      • Change name
      • Change profile picture
      • View space memberships
      • View organization memberships
      • Unlock an account
      • Delete an account
      • Account suspension
    • Billing and subscription
      • Manage space licenses
      • View your subscription plan
      • Invoices
      • Add billing details to your organization
      • Change billing currency
      • Change credit card details
      • FAQs for the Contentful Free plan
      • Cancel a space license 
      • Cancel subscription
    • Usage
      • Usage limits
      • Asset bandwidth
      • Usage alerts
    • Access tools
      • Okta user provisioning integration with SCIM
      • OneLogin user provisioning integration with SCIM
      • Azure user provisioning integration with SCIM
      • Configure Ping SCIM user provisioning
      • SCIM FAQ
    • Data export
    • Manage Space add-ons
  • Studio
    • Experiences
      • Enable Experiences in spaces
      • Configure Experiences
      • Set up role for Experiences
      • Create an experience
      • Create a pattern
      • Editable patterns
      • Nested patterns
      • Organize patterns into folders
      • Bind content
      • Pre-bind content in Experiences
      • Publish an experience
      • Scheduled publishing in Experiences
      • Version history in Experiences
  • Personalization
    • Install Contentful Personalization
    • Set up Contentful Personalization
    • Data buckets
    • Metrics
      • Set up metrics
    • Optimization hub
    • Ninetailed Insights
    • Audience insights
    • Component Insights
    • Experience Insights
    • Audiences
      • Rule types
      • Operators
      • Conditions
      • Linked audiences
    • Ninetailed Experiences
      • Experiments
      • Personalizations
      • Linked experiences
      • Custom flags
    • Merge tags
    • Preview
    • AI Capabilities
    • Data connectors
      • Salesforce CRM
      • Klaviyo
      • Shopify data connector
      • SAP Emarsys
      • Albacross
      • Segment
      • Zapier
  • AI & Automations
    • AI Actions
      • AI Actions: roles and permissions
      • Templates for AI Actions
      • Work with AI Actions
      • AI Actions: instructions
      • AI Actions: variables
      • AI Actions: Playground testing and publish
      • AI Actions in entry editor
      • AI Actions: Usage calculation
      • AI Actions: Bring your own model
    • Workflows
      • Create a Workflow
      • Workflows management