Create a campaign

A campaign is a zone (a spot on your site) that shows tale groups (one circle in a bar), each made of tales (full-screen pages of image, video and text). See Concepts for the glossary.

Create the zone

1. Zones, then New zone.
2. Name it (example: "Home - top"). The slug (home-top) is made from the name if left empty. Pick a template: Stories bar, Promo banner or Blank.

The page shows why a zone is not visible yet, and a checklist: choose a display, issue the zone key on the zone's Install tab, turn a tale group On with a shown tale.

Add tale groups

1. New tale group, give it a name, and upload an image or video: each file becomes a tale. New tales are Shown.
2. Turn the group On. New groups start Off.

In the furniture example we made three groups: Summer sale, New arrivals and Staff picks. Each has two tales, and each tale has its own generated sample illustration.

Open a group to see its tales. Each uploaded file is one tale, shown by default, with an Add tale button.

Click a tale to open its panel: Shown/Hidden, Archive, Delete, Replace media, and Edit in Tale Studio.

Tale Studio opens the tale on a canvas with an Elements palette (text, image, video, shapes, emoji, stickers, buttons, polls and more), Templates, Media and Layers, a Safe area toggle, Undo/Redo, Preview, and Update tale, which puts your changes on the site (until then visitors see the previous version).

Add a heading and publish the change

1. In the Elements palette, click Heading. It lands on the canvas. Change the text in the Text box on the right (up to 1,000 characters).
2. Studio saves as you work ("All changes saved") but visitors still see the old version: the status says "changes not updated yet".
3. Click Update tale. Studio confirms "Tale updated. Visitors now see this version."

Studio warns about low contrast here (white text on a light photo, about 1.2:1). Fix it in the text's style panel: set Background to Highlight behind each line (or Solid box) and pick a dark colour (black in the example). The panel then reads "Contrast 21.0:1 against its highlight". Also make the text box tall enough for the text (we set Top 36%, Height 24%), then click Update tale again.

The fixed heading shows in the viewer on the example website:

Only the Heading element was tested. Other elements (images, shapes, buttons, polls, Templates, Media, Layers) were not exercised.

A group, and each tale, can also be scheduled (the ... menu) so it only shows in a time window.

Check visibility

Every zone, group and tale says "Visible on site" or "Not visible" with the first reason. The Display tab sets bar or banner options.