Option selection element
An option selection element is used to present a list of predefined options that content creators can select from when creating a content item. An option selection element can only be added to an authoring template.
When using an option selection element, you can either enter a custom set of options, or select a set of categories. Which option you use will depend on how you want to use the option selection element.
Simplifying item profiling
If you select a set of categories in a option selection element, you can choose to have the categories that a user selects when creating a content item added to the item's profile. This means you can use multiple option selection elements on a content item form to simplify the process of profiling a content item. For example, if you used separate taxonomies for "product type", "team" and "campaign", you could use three separate option selection elements in an authoring template. This would make it easier for content creators to select categories from each taxonomy on the content form.
Displaying different text on a rendered page
A simple use-case for using option selection elements is when you want to enable content creators to select from a short list of text options that will then be rendered on a page. For example, if you wanted to indicate different document types such as a "procedure", "policy" or "news" on the rendered page.
Work with custom code
Option selection elements can also be used to allow content creators to select different options that can then be used as parameters in some custom code such as a custom workflow or a JSP component.
Selection elements
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