Use this widget to enter content directly using the text editor and its features. You can use the basic formatting options of the text editor. You can type and format text, insert images, documents, and symbols, and paste already formatted text and tables from Microsoft Word.
To do this, click Edit button in the upper-right corner of the widget. The Edit window appears where the text editor is displayed.
For more information, see Text editor .
With the Content block widget you can reuse already created and shared content and you can also share the content that you have entered using the text editor. Shared content is stored in the Content blocks module.
IMPORTANT: The changes you make to the shared content apply to all pages, where the content is displayed. For more information, see Sitefinity CMS overview » Status of pages after editing a shared content block.
NOTE: If your site is multilingual and the page you are editing is synchronized with another translation, when you edit the widget, the Save to all translations button appears. If you click it, the current widget configuration will be saved to all translations, else, if you click Save, the widget configuration is saves only to the current translation, but the pages are still synchronized. If your pages are synchronized, you can have different widget configurations, but you cannot have different widgets.
When the content block widget is displaying shared content, its title bar looks in the following way:
NOTE: If you are using multiple site management and the Generic content module uses data sources from more than one site, when you share a content block, is saved in the data source of the current site. For more information, see Multisite: Manage multiple sites.
You can exclude a particular Content block widget from the site search.
You do this by clicking Advanced button and entering true in ExcludeFromSearchIndex field.
For more information, see Administration: Create search indexes.
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