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Creating modular content? Embed one Turtl Doc into another in just a few clicks

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Written by Dominic Adams
Updated over a week ago

Including a Doc within a Doc is a quick and simple way to repurpose content and create new Docs from your existing materials. Whether you're putting together a tailored sales kit or compiling specific resources for a particular customer, this is a great feature to have on your radar.

Note: Nested Docs are available only to customers with this feature enabled. If you’re interested in setting up nested Docs on your account, reach out to your CSM or contact support@turtl.co.

The following 2-minute video covers:

  • Explanation of a nested Doc

  • Explanation of a wrapper Doc

  • The multiple benefits of repurposing content

  • How to add in a nested Doc into wrapper Doc

  • How to check the nested Doc was copied over correctly

  • How to measure the performance of a nested Doc

How does it work?

While editing a Turtl Doc, click the three dots on a Surf page thumbnail and select 'Include Doc.' Enter the URL of the Doc you want to embed and click 'Include.' The complete Doc will be placed right after the currently selected Surf page thumbnail.

Note:
The wrapper Doc needs to be published again after including the nested Doc.

The nested Doc appears as one page in your Surf page timeline, but all of the embedded Doc pages are accounted for in your page count.

What happens when you edit or update a nested Doc?

Any changes you make to a Turtl Doc will automatically update everywhere that Doc is used - including if it's embedded into another Doc.

Note:
Since a new release in September 2023, it has become mandatory that all nested Docs be published.
This release does not affect any nested Docs that were nested in the draft prior to the release - the draft version with the most recently saved changes will pull through.

This means that you can have different users working on different parts of one Doc. In technical terms, the "wrapper" Doc (the main Doc) calls upon the "module" Doc (the nested Doc), meaning that Docs can be updated separately and then tied together.

For example:

Company A wants to make a thought leadership Doc:

  • They hire Agency X to complete one part

  • They hire Agency Y to complete another part

Like this, Company A can create two workspaces and give Agency X access to one and Agency Y to the other. The agencies can build two separate Docs in the same style, and Company A can then combine them in one wrapper Doc.

Note: All nested Docs will use the same theme colours of the wrapper Doc it is embedded into.

So it’s one Doc within another Doc - but what happens to analytics?

Because a Doc can be viewed either independently or embedded in another Doc, we collect analytics both in the embedded Doc and the wrapper Doc.

This means that the total reads on a Doc are a combination of those it receives as a separate piece of content and those it receives as part of another Doc.

The wrapper Doc will collect analytics as a whole, so its analytics data will include analytics events that happened both on the wrapper doc and any nested docs it contains.

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