Core Docs - Digital Publishing - Channel Types

Rock Version: v20.0
Last Modified: 2026-05-01 1:28 PM

The first concept we'll discuss is channel types. As you work on your site, look for repeating data patterns. Items like web promotions are well-structured, having data items like title, image, summary text, intended audience and content. While you could edit all of this content with the HTML editor, hopefully you can already see how that would be very tedious and prone to error. Here's where content channel types come into play.

Content channel types help define reusable data structures (think of a container for specific types of data). Rock ships with a couple of these channels already defined. Let's look at a few to see their role and purpose:

Anatomy of a Content Channel Type

As we mentioned before, the role of the content channel type is to define the container and settings for a particular type of content. Let's walk through the administration screen found under Admin Tools > CMS Configuration > Content Channel Types.