Overview
Managing many multi-day activities and creating modules and templates manually for those adds a lot of work and increases the maintenance efforts of the content. The feature companion templates and modules relieve Product and Content Managers of those additional steps.
Important:
This feature needs to be enabled by Nezasa. Please contact our support team or your customer success manager to enable the feature flags available at Settings > General Settings > Companion Templates:
Allow user to control companion module template generation
Allow user to control companion itinerary template generation
What is a "Companion" Template/Module?
A companion template or module inherits all its information from a specific activity product of the Nezasa inventory and is generated by TripBuilder. The companion template/module has the following characteristics:
Template/Module Management
The companion template/module will be listed among the other templates/modules.
Users cannot edit. Thus, it cannot be checked out.
It contains as its core (and as only product) the activity product from which it inherits description, title, text, pictures, and tags.
The start/end location of the template/module will be what is defined in the activity product.
The companion template/module is automatically updated when the activity is updated.
Discovery
A companion template will be listed in Discovery as any other regular template.
Planner
Companion modules can be selected as pre-/post-modules.
How to Enable the Companions for a Product Activity?
Go to the created inventory activity
Check out and open the product activity
Click on the Miscellaneous tab
Scroll down to the option Companion Generation
Enable the option you need to generate a new template or a module based on the selected activity.
Please note that it takes a moment for TripBuilder to generate all required companion objects. Once the template is generated, it is listed among the "referencing templates" on the same tab.
Known Limitations
Companion modules cannot be imported into a template.
Removing an activity that has companion templates/modules is not possible.
Companion templates/modules don't have a from-price.