The Datella invitation editor, start to finish

The editor looks like a design tool, but the job is simple: pick a section, change its content or style, and the editor saves by itself. This tour introduces where everything lives — the rail, the canvas, the status bar — so the other tutorials can just point at places.

1. Enter through Your invitation

   From Home, tap the Your invitation card and the editor opens for the active event. On a phone it may offer to move you to a bigger screen — choose to continue here and everything still works; only the canvas area is narrower. The offer returns every time until the "Don't show again" box is ticked — after that, buried for good.

   

2. Learn the five-tab rail

   The main tabs: "Content" edits the selected section's text and contents; "Theme" holds colors, fonts, and templates; "Elements" places ornaments and frames; "Text" adds free-standing lettering; "Uploads" brings in your own photos. The rest hides under "More": the sections list, layers, and the invitation settings — music and the link address included.

4. Get around the canvas

   The canvas in the middle shows the invitation from cover to footer. The section-name strip above it jumps straight to any section, and scrolling the canvas highlights whatever is passing by. Zoom sits in percent steps on the bottom bar, with "Fit to screen" to come back to sane. Tapping a section selects it for editing.

5. Read the status bar along the top

   The status bar is mission control: the Draft or Published pill, the "Saving…" indicator that becomes "Saved", the "Preview as guest" button, and Publish — the only publish control in the entire editor. Once the invitation is live, its addresses appear on this bar too. The publishing tutorial walks each button.

6. Borrow desktop habits: undo

   Undo keeps the last fifty steps and works across sections; its reach is decorations and the photo frame — text edits and settings do not undo, so reread wording changes before moving on. The undo and redo buttons sit on screen too, so phone users need no shortcuts. On a computer: Ctrl or Cmd+Z undoes, Ctrl+Y or Ctrl+Shift+Z redoes, Ctrl+D duplicates the selection, Delete removes it. One limit matters: undo history lives only while the page stays open. Reload or close, and history starts fresh.

8. Trust autosave, watch the indicator

   There is no save button because the editor saves on its own: decoration changes a third of a second after your finger rests; settings save as you change them — certain sliders wait half a second. If the connection drops, a rejected change rolls back to the last confirmed state. Before closing the tab, glance at the "Saved" indicator — that is the one habit worth building.

10. See it as a guest

    "Preview as guest" opens a phone frame rendering your invitation exactly as guests see it — waiting for pending saves first, so you never preview stale work. It needs a claimed link address; without one, the editor points you to set it. Real guests never see the preview marker you do.