Editing & Updating Saved Blocks

Hello @caseyaltmandesign,

Thanks for sharing your question with the Klaviyo Community!

At this time is not possible to edit a saved block that would then update all other templates or emails using that block automatically. However, I do believe that this is a great idea and have gone ahead and shared this feedback with our Product Team to take into consideration. 

Really appreciate the feedback you’ve provided to us!

Thank you for being a member of the Klaviyo Community!

David

Thanks so much! I think this will be a huge benefit to have this feature built out -- big time saver!!

It would be a great help indeed to be able to view the saved blocks (not only their name but also how they look) and edit the blocks via the email template section. 
Thanks! 

this is SOOOOO Critical.  And a reason to maybe move providers.   

You have the code base for that snippet in your database.  

It would NOT be big stretch to let us edit it and then you update that token in all instances in our flows. 

Right now.  My footer links are BURIED in 100’s of emails and flows.  

I need to update my footer links.   so I need to pay someone to click into EVERY ONE of those click Social Links and add icon, add custom icon (TikTok) add the url, Save, save

RINSE AND REPEAT 100+ times???   

Are you serious?   that's nuts.  

Hello @KlavYo,

Thank you for sharing this feedback with us.

I’m sorry to hear about your frustration on this and I understand where you are coming from. My colleague @david.to has relayed the request to build out an automated “mass update block X” feature to the product team. We do have some other great features currently in production so stay tuned for those updates . 

Based on your description of events, it doesn’t sound like you are using the already-existing saved block feature to expedite the “block update” process. To clarify, you can pre-save a footer link-block (already including the social icon + URL) by clicking on that block and then clicking on the little star icon depicted in the image below.

Once that is saved and named, you can drag and drop that newly saved block from the “Saved” blocks tab in the bottom-left.

Using this method, you will not have to add the icon and the URL every time when updating a section of the email, which will save you a lot of time. That is the purpose behind using saved blocks, to save you a bit of time while we build out a more automated version of this . For more information on this process, I recommend viewing our article on this here.

Thanks for being a member of our community.

Hello @Dov I appreciate the quick reply and taking our suggestion into account for a future release. 

I understand the blocks.   But once I have saved that block and have it in 100 emails and now we want to change that footer block to a new phone number, add another Social profile etc…  what are the steps? 

Edit the actual saved block and all 100+ emails auto update?  

Or open each email and update the footer block by replacing that block with another new footer block with the correct info, one email at a time? 

Hi @KlavYo,

Of course, happy to provide as much clarity as I can.

Yes, the process would be the latter. You would first create a net-new block with the correct information, save that block, and then open each email, delete the old footer block and replace it with the new footer block. I understand it is not the perfect solution, but it is better than manually updating each block with the new information each time as we work towards a more automated solution.

Thanks and have a great weekend.

Being able to edit the saved blocks seems like really pretty basic feature that should be available.  Updating all emails one by one manually is a huge waste of time, staff resources, and money.

Is there a timeline on when saved blocks will be editable? 

I also have hundreds of emails that need the footer updated (along with an about section).

I’m pretty sure functionality like this started becoming common on the internet around 2005 (maybe earlier), so you’re a little behind the times haha.  ;)

Hello @caseyaltmandesign, @Femy, @KlavYo, @travh and other readers of this thread,

I have some wonderful news to share.

By end of Q4, we will be pushing out a brand new template editor including a feature that will allow you to add a saved block to multiple messages at once, then later edit the saved block(s) and see those edits reflected across all messages.

Thanks for your patience here!

hi @Dov - that is great news, any updates here? This would be amazing to see