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Create a Brief

Briefs are a content type in Activator 3 used for structured content briefs. This page walks through how to create a new Brief from the Dashboard.

Before you start

You'll need:

  • Permission to create content in your tenant (your role must include Create access for Briefs).

  • The Product, Country, and Language metadata for the Brief.

  • Knowledge of which Design System your project uses — Briefs are bound to a Design System at creation time.

Create a new Brief

  1. From the Dashboard, click Create new in the top-left corner and select New brief. Alternatively, click the New Brief card in the "Let's get started" section, or — if you're already viewing the Briefs list — use the contextual New brief button.

  2. Fill in the mandatory metadata: Brief name, Product, Country, and Language. These determine which Design Systems are available in the next step.

  3. Select the Design System that your Brief should use. Only Design Systems matching your Product and Country selections will be listed.

  4. If your Design System provides Templates for Briefs, select one. A Template gives you a pre-arranged structure with placeholder content.

  5. Click Create.

Activator opens your new Brief in the Editor view, ready for you to add content.

Building the Brief

Once your Brief is created, you populate it the same way as other Activator content: by selecting Layouts from the Design System and filling in their content placeholders, or by importing pre-approved Modular Content from your DAM.

The Brief Components available to you (text blocks, image blocks, callouts, lists, etc.) are defined in the Design System for your project. See Slide and Brief Components for a reference of available components.

  • Briefs — the section landing for everything Brief-related

  • Modular Content — how to pull pre-approved content from your DAM into a Brief

  • Layouts — how to use Layouts when building a Brief

  • Design Systems — what Design Systems are and how they govern Brief construction