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Create a Slide

Slides are the building blocks of presentations and eDetailers in Activator 3. This page walks through how to create a new Slide from the Dashboard.

Before you start

You'll need:

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

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

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

Create a new Slide

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

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

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

  4. If your Design System provides Templates, select one. A Template gives you a pre-arranged structure with placeholder content; you can also start from a blank canvas.

  5. Click Create.

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

Three ways to build the Slide

From a Template

If your Design System includes Templates, the wizard offers them in the final step. A Template is a fully-arranged Slide with placeholder text, images, and structure — useful when you want to follow brand guidelines without building from scratch.

From Layouts

Layouts are reusable structural blocks (rows, columns, callouts, accordions, lists) defined in the Design System. Once your Slide is created, you can assemble it by dragging Layouts onto the canvas and populating each placeholder with content. See Layouts for more on how Layouts work.

From scratch (Designer role only)

Users with the Designer role can build Slides on an empty canvas, working directly with the Activator Designer UI. This is typically used by Content Designers building new Layouts or experimental compositions. The Designer interface is only available to users whose role permits it. See Step-By-Step Build a Slide Layout for a worked example.

For a worked tutorial walking through the construction of a Slide Layout end-to-end, see Step-By-Step Build a Slide Layout.