Creating Blueprints

Blueprints are pre-built, reusable base templates for your team that streamline the email creation process.

Using a blueprint will ensure that every email conforms to pre-approved design patterns, and is guaranteed to work on every device and email provider. Blueprints allow you to essentially skip the drag-and-drop build process, jumping straight into adding custom imagery and copy.

In order to create a blueprint, you must have either Admin or Developer role permissions with can edit or can publish workspace access.

Creating a Blueprint

Creating a blueprint is as straightforward as building an email in Dyspatch, with the added benefit of being reusable every time your team needs to create a new email.

Blueprints option highlighted from the home page in Dyspatch

Select Blueprints from the Dyspatch home page menu then click Create Blueprint. Name your blueprint and optionally add a description for your team.

Step 1 of creating a blueprint with the name Newsletter and a description of Monthly Newsletter

In step 2, toggle on which themes you'd like to use this blueprint with.

Step 2 of creating a blueprint with a list of available themes with some toggled to enabled, and others disabled

For a blueprint to be available for users to select when creating new emails, it needs to be added to a theme. A blueprint’s styling will be inherited from the theme, so you can reuse the same blueprint across many themes

Adding Blocks to a Blueprint

Drag and drop blocks into your blueprint then style them the same way you would when building an email.

gif of dragging a block from the block gallery into the blueprint
Only blocks available in your blueprint's active themes will be available to build with

Additional Blueprint Attributes

Many of the same features available for individual emails are also available for blueprints, such as:

  • Metadata, such as sender details
  • Project links
  • Preview data
  • Theme selection
  • And AMP State

When added to the blueprint, these attributes are automatically added to each new email created from the blueprint.

Creating an Email From a Blueprint

After choosing the workspace and theme for your new email you will be given a list of blueprints to select as a starting point.

Newsletter blueprint highlighted as an option when creating a new email

Voila! Your blueprint is now an email, ready for you to update any copy or other assets as needed.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Why don't I have my blueprint as an option when I create a new email?
    It's possible that the blueprint isn't enabled for the theme of your new email. Navigate to your blueprint and enable the correct theme from the Themes tab.

  • Can I bulk update a block used in a blueprint?
    Bulk updates to blocks will be applied to an email created with a blueprint the same as any other email.

  • Can I bulk update emails created with a blueprint?
    Any edits to your blueprint will not affect emails previously created with that blueprint.

  • Can I add a block to the blueprint that's not available in all of the blueprint's active themes?
    If a block that does not have all the same themes active as the blueprint, you will be prompted with the option to either add the block to the blueprint and all the blueprint's themes, or to cancel adding the block to the blueprint.

  • Why don't I see a block in the blueprint builder that I know is in my account?
    It's possible that the blueprint and the block don't have at least one active theme in common.

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