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Publish Content

Gary Ploski Updated by Gary Ploski

After content has been created and approved, it’s time to share that content with the world. While Opal does not publish content to web or social platforms directly, it provides both manual and automated options to assist users in the publishing process via the web and smartphone.

Opal also integrates directly with several publishing platforms, allowing for easy transfer of content from Opal to your team’s preferred publisher.

Publish Content Manually

When you publish content manually, you’ll need all the content details and notes before you click publish. Options to publish manually include: sharing content, downloading content and native delivery.

Native

When the content delivery option is set to Native, a single user is set to receive approved content immediately or 30 minutes before the scheduled time with the content's copy, asset(s), notes, etc. via email and/or SMS.

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Do Not Deliver

When the content delivery option is set to Native, content will remain in Opal regardless of the content approval status, i.e. notifications will not be sent to anyone on the team to publish the content after final approval has been given.

Opal on Mobile

While on the go, content can be published to any app that you have installed on your mobile device.

Copy Text

To save content copy to the clipboard:

  1. Navigate to a piece of content.
  2. Tap “Assets & Copy.”
  3. Long tap on the copy, and then tap "Copy Text."

Preview and Save Assets

To save an asset to your device, or copy it to the clipboard:

  1. Navigate to a piece of content.
  2. Tap “Assets & Copy.”
    1. Tap the asset to preview.
    2. Long tap on the asset, and then tap "Save Asset" or "Copy Asset."
Tip: To save all images and videos to your camera roll by tapping "Save All Assets" after tapping the share icon.

Publish or Share

To publish or share content:

  1. Navigate to a piece of content.
  2. Tap “Assets & Content.”
  3. Tap the share icon.
  4. Tap the application icon for which would like to publish the content.
Note: Some applications will not automatically add text or an asset(s) after tapping the share icon.
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Set as Live/Published

To set content as live:

  1. Tap "Add Live URL."
  2. Paste the URL.
  3. Tap "Submit."

Publish Content via a Publishing Partner

Opal integrates with a number of publishing platforms.

For each publishing platform, Opal provides two options for exporting content: “Automatic” and “One-click.”

Note: To find out if your Opal is configured with a publishing integration, contact your Opal administrator.

Automatic

When the content delivery option is set to Automatic, all required fields must be completed and the final approval must take place before the scheduled time noted in Opal.

Once the content receives its final approval, the content will be immediately delivered to your publishing partner in a draft state.

Someone will need to take further action on your content in your publisher to schedule it or publish it immediately.

One-click

When the content delivery option is set to one-click, all required fields must be completed.

When a piece of content is set with one-click delivery it will require one additional interaction by an Opal user in the Content Queue to deliver it to your publisher.

Unlike Automatic delivery, the final approval does not need to take place before the scheduled time noted in Opal. This is because One-click content is delivered to your publisher with the current time, not the scheduled time.

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