Sometimes it is practical to edit content outside the CMS. For this purpose, content can be exported and imported again after editing. For editing in Excel, the CSV format is the obvious choice.
The DOCX export exports the content of a specific language (for example for a translation agency or an AI assistant). The target language is already specified during the export. On re-import, only the input fields of the target language are updated.
The XML export can even export entire structure trees (content areas, input fields, snippets, records, templates). This way, content areas can be archived (backup), copied for new projects or transferred from a development environment to the live system.
In the example, a “Preview” button can be seen above the list: a start page template has been assigned to the entire content area. Its presentation does not have to match the internal view. With a SELECT query, templates can filter records by various criteria, even across several content areas, and create lists from them, for example the latest 5 news items of a certain category for the home page, or, for an archive, all records by a certain author on a certain keyword that were online up to today.