Snippets & Reusable Blocks

Compass has two reuse features — Snippets and Reusable Blocks — that look similar at first but serve different purposes. This guide explains both.

Snippets

A Snippet is a saved piece of text you can paste into any guide. Once pasted, the snippet content lives as part of the guide — it's a copy, not a reference. Editing the snippet later does NOT update guides that used it.

When to use a snippet

• Your standard email-signature paragraph you put at the bottom of certain guides

• A boilerplate disclaimer ("Pricing subject to availability...")

• A common contact info block you re-type across many guides

• Anything you copy-paste frequently and don't need to keep in sync

Managing snippets

1. Go to Snippets in the admin nav

2. Click New Snippet, give it a title, type the content

3. Save

4. In any guide, type /snippet and pick from your saved snippets — Compass pastes the content

Reusable Blocks

A Reusable Block is referenced across multiple guides. When you edit a reusable block, every guide that uses it updates automatically. The block is one source of truth.

When to use a reusable block

• Your cancellation policy — appears at the bottom of every trip guide; updates when policy changes

• Travel insurance disclosure — must be consistent across guides for compliance

• A standard FAQ entry ("How do I pay my deposit?") that needs to stay in sync

• Anything where consistency across guides matters and updates should propagate

Managing reusable blocks

1. Build the block in any guide first (e.g., a callout or paragraph you want to reuse)

2. Right-click the block → Convert to Reusable Block and give it a name

3. In any other guide, type /block and pick the reusable block to insert it

4. To update: edit it in any guide where it appears, or via the Reusable Blocks admin page — all instances refresh

Side-by-Side Comparison

• Snippet = copy-paste. Independent after insertion. Edit doesn't propagate.

• Reusable Block = linked reference. All instances stay in sync. Edit propagates.

• Snippet = good for occasional reuse where you might want to tweak per-guide

• Reusable Block = good for cross-guide consistency where drift is a bug, not a feature

Which Should You Use?

Default to reusable blocks for anything compliance-related, policy-related, or where customers see the same content across multiple guides. Drift is dangerous in those cases.

Use snippets for "common starting points" you want to customize per-guide once inserted — agency contact info you might tailor by region, vendor descriptions you might tighten per audience, etc.