Using the Universal Editor (deprecated)

Deprecation notice

Adobe Commerce no longer onboards new customers onto the Universal Editor. For new storefronts, use Experience Workspace instead.

If you already author with the Universal Editor, your project continues to work and this page covers your workflow.

The Universal Editor lets you edit storefront content in the context of the rendered page. Your edits save back into your Document Authoring (DA.live) project, where you can use content orchestration apps such as localization, bulk publish, and Snapshots.

The Universal Editor workflow applies to all Commerce backends, including Platform as a Service (PaaS), Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service, and Adobe Commerce Optimizer. See the Resources section for setup, workflow steps, and reference.

Prerequisite

Your storefront must be set up and content initialized in DA.live. See Create a storefront for the setup process and DA.live documentation to learn the DA.live interface.

Resources

Start here: Setup Universal Editor (DA.live) — requirements, configuration, and behavior for editing content in the Universal Editor.

Supporting docs:

• Editing documents in DA.live — authoring basics
• Commerce Picker — select products, categories, and variants from your catalog in the Universal Editor
• Localization (Document Authoring) — Commerce-specific localization tasks

For developers: Universal Editor for developers — instrument custom blocks for the Universal Editor.