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This page describes component personalization, a Magnolia feature that enables adapting the content of a page component to the visitor according to his or her personal preferences, needs and capabilities.  Personalization at the level of page components works along the same principles as page personalization except that its scope is not a page but a component.   Magnolia 5.4.9+

  5.4.12+. You can

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personalize a page

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and its components

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at the same time

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. The feature is disabled by default. To enable it, set /modules/personalization-components/config/allowNestedVariants to true.

Personalizing a component

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If the selected component hasn't been personalized yet, only the Add component variant option will be available:

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 To add a new variant to a component select the Add component variant . A new pull-down menu will appear in the component's top bar together with the variant icon  placed next to the menu: 

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Why hide the original? Hiding the original can be useful in a scenario in which the content is exclusive, targeting a particular audience. If no variants match, the original (fallback) content will be hidden. To hide/show the content of a component, select the Hide/Show original option in the Action bar.

Changing the template of a personalized component

With Magnolia 5.4.12+ you can serve different content to different audiences by changing the template used in a personalized component. This enables you to serve text to one audience, an image to another audience, video to a third audience and so on. To change the template of a component variant, click Change template in the Action bar and in the next dialog choose the template you wish to apply to the actual component variant:

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Deleting a variant or all variants

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