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title: "Static Content"
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updated: 2025-01-28T16:53:26Z
published: 2025-01-28T16:53:26Z
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# Static Content

### **Static Content**

**Manage Document Package Template: Static Content** While building a template, users have the option to select static content for the document.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/image(33).png)

![Set the type of static content you would like to use in the Document Template.](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/StaticContent_1.png)

Admin users can create text (i.e. – Confidentiality message for a header or footer) or a place holder for the current date. Once the content has been selected/entered, click **Save Content**.

**Static Content Types**

There are two types of Static Content:

**Plain Text** Plain Text is mergable text with no formatting or placeholders. It can be merged onto pdf, pdf additional sections, doc, docx, xls, xlsx and CobbleStone® Document Builder Sections files (cdbs).

![](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/image(34).png)

**Current Date** Current Date merges [today's date] onto the file at the time of generation. It is mergeable onto pdf, pdf additional sections, doc, docx, xls, xlsx and CobbleStone® Document Builder Sections files (cdbs).

![](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/image(35).png)

Current Date Formats:

- Long Date
  - Sunday, 20 August 2017
- Long Date & Time
  - Sunday, 20 August 2017 09:17 PM
- Month Day, Year
  - August 20, 2017
- Month/Day/Year
  - 8/20/2017
- Month/Day/Year with Time
  - 8/20/2017 09:19 PM
- Year/Month/Day
  - 2017/08/20
- Year/Month/Day with Time
  - 2017/08/20 09:21 PM

Click **Save Content** to add the new Static Content to the template and generate a placeholder for it. ![Click Manage to modify the static content](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/ManageStaticContent_1.png)

After saving the Static Content, manage/edit the content by clicking **Manage**.