Social layouts

The Social layouts tab lists the structures a social post's cards are drawn from. A layout has no colours, typefaces or logo of its own: each post takes those from its brand kit. You can use the layouts Nuvelics ships, and import your own from a post you like.

Who can use itCopy Anchor Link

Owners and admins (output_template:manage), the same permission as Output templates, because a layout exists to serve an output template. The tab is missing for Members and Viewers.

Read the boardCopy Anchor Link

The tab has two sections:

• Nuvelics layouts: the layouts shared by every organization. They are read-only.
• Your layouts: the layouts you imported, with a summary of how many are imported and how many are active.

Each layout shows its structure, the Shapes it is offered in, a Photo badge if it takes a photo, and Active or Inactive for yours. To see how layouts look, choose a brand kit in Preview in and a Shape. If you have no brand kit the board says "Create a brand kit to preview layouts." See Brand kits. A shape a layout is not offered in reads "Not offered in" that shape.

Import a layout from a postCopy Anchor Link

1. Choose Import from a post.
2. Under Images of the post, choose Add an image for each card of the post: a screenshot, or a card saved from the platform. Use JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 10 MiB each, and up to 10 images.
3. Optional: enter the Post link. It must be an https URL. It is kept as the layout's source and never opened.
4. Choose Read post.

Nuvelics reads each image once, and that counts as one layout import in Usage. The structure of the post becomes a layout drawn in your kit. Its photo, colours, typeface and logo are not kept, and the image itself is shown for review only and is never stored.

If an image cannot be read, the page names it and says "Nothing was saved." The reason tells you what to try: another image from the post or a cleaner screenshot, trying again, or a PNG, JPEG or WebP. After a failed read the images are discarded, so upload them again to try another read.

Review what was readCopy Anchor Link

Each image makes its own layout. If the post had several images, pick one to review and keep any of them. For a layout you can:

• Set its Name, shown in the template form's layout picker. A name of up to 120 characters is required.
• Choose the Shapes it is offered in. Shapes other than the source's are reflowed from it; turn off a shape that does not hold up. A greyed-out shape was left off because the layout does not hold up in it.
• Review What was read: the Photo, each text box and the Logo. For a text box change its Role (such as Kicker, Headline, Quote, Speaker, Context, Title, Bullet, Figure, Label, Attribution) and its Character cap, which can be lowered but not raised above the limit shown. Remove takes a part out and Restore brings it back.
• Read Not drawn and Not kept for what the import left out.

Choose Save layout. You see Layout saved and can go Back to layouts.

Edit, switch off or delete a layoutCopy Anchor Link

Open one of Your layouts to see its Preview and Settings:

• Change the Name and which Shapes it is offered in, then choose Save (Layout saved). A shape cannot be turned off while a template of that shape uses the layout.
• Activate or Deactivate it from Layout actions (Layout activated, Layout deactivated). Only active layouts are offered when you build a card plan in an output template.
• Delete removes it after you confirm and cannot be undone (Layout deleted).

If another person saved first you are told "This layout changed since you loaded it - reload and try again."

Other ways to manage layoutsCopy Anchor Link

• CLI: nuvelics social-layouts.
• API: Social layouts.
• Using a layout in a template: Output templates.