Ensure that your are using the Select Tool, so that you can select and drag content.

There are three ways of populating a Content Group:

1. Drag & Drop from Document Structure: Drag and drop elements directly from the document structure to a content group.
2. Drag & Drop from Document Preview: Drag and drop elements directly from the document preview to a content group.
3. Via the Option Menus: The option menu of a content item has a Content Group menu. Choose a Content Group for your selected content from its sub-menu.

NOTE: You can select multiple items at once, and then drag them all into a content group.

NOTE: To remove items from a content group, drag the them into the Unassigned Items group, or choose Unassigned Items via the menus.

You can also select multiple content items in the document, and assign the whole selection to your content group at once using the same methods as above.

You can filter the document structure to more easily select the required content.

In our example here, we filter out everything from the structure except text segments.
You can drag-and-drop items across multiple spreads into a content group directly from the Structure panel.

1. Add a filter by expanding the Filter area and clicking the + (plus) button at the bottom of the Structure Panel. In this example, we chose an Item Type filter, and set the checkboxes so that only text segments are in the structure.
2. Select all of the filtered content from the document, across all spreads, and then drag to the Content Group from the structure or the preview. You do not need to expand any spreads – you can simply select and drag at the spread level.
3. Alternatively, assign the selected content to a Content Group via the multi-select Action Menu in the Structure Panel.

NOTE: For a detailed description of the available filter options, please refer to the lessons in the User Interface Description.

1. If you assign both content and content containers to a Content Group, the selection is considered ambiguous. Specifically, the system will ask if you want to assign all content from the container(s), or only the selected content items.
2. Select your answer and click OK.
3. If you do not wish to see this warning any more during this session, check this box before you click OK.

NOTE: This warning is to ensure that users do not accidentally assign content that should not be in the Job to the Content Group.

1. If you assign only content containers (e.g. frames, spreads, etc.) to a Content Group, the system will check that you really do want to assign all content from the container(s).
2. If you do, click OK.
3. If you do not wish to see this warning any more during this session, check this box before you click OK.

NOTE: This warning is to ensure that users do not accidentally assign content that should not be in the Job to the Content Group.

To quickly see which items are in which Content Group, you can do the following:

1. Choose the All Items group so that all items are active in the preview/structure.
2. Switch on the appropriate highlighting options to highlight content using the color of the Content Group to which it is assigned:
   • Highlight Images: Highlights all images in the document preview.
   • Highlight Segments: Highlights all text segments in the document preview.
3. There are also other options here for displaying the design structure, but they don't highlight the content itself:
   • Show Frames: Display all frames in the document preview.
   • Show Text Columns: Display the outlines of text columns within text frames in the document preview.
   • Show Tables: Display the outlines of tables in the document preview.
   • Show Groups: Display the outlines of any grouped content in the document preview.
4. Content is highlighted using the color of the Content Group to which the content is assigned. If the content is not assigned to any Content Group, it will be highlighted using the default color of the Client Workspace.
5. Content items in the structure that have been assigned to a Content Group will be tagged with the color of that group. If a content item does not have a tag like this, it has not been assigned to a Content Group.

NOTE: If you only wish to see which items are in a specific Content Group, simply select that group at the top and only those items will be active in the editor.