Protecting Your Edits
One of Esora’s most important features for managers is field pinning — a system that protects your manual edits from being overwritten by the automatic importer.
The problem it solves
Section titled “The problem it solves”Esora regularly checks your social media pages to keep event data fresh. Without protection, the automatic importer could overwrite a title you carefully corrected, revert a description you rewrote, or replace media you uploaded.
Field pinning makes sure that never happens.
How it works
Section titled “How it works”When you edit a field in the Manage dashboard, that field automatically gets pinned. A pinned field is locked from automatic updates — the importer will skip it entirely during future imports.
Which fields can be pinned?
Section titled “Which fields can be pinned?”On events:
- Title
- Description
- Media (images and videos)
- Category
- External URL
- Translations (i18n)
On occurrences:
- Start date
- Start time
- End date
- End time
- Price
Recognizing pinned fields
Section titled “Recognizing pinned fields”Pinned fields display an orange pin icon with the word “Pinned” next to the field label. Hovering over it shows the date when the field was pinned.
Unpinning a field
Section titled “Unpinning a field”If you want the automatic importer to update a field again, click the pin icon. This unpins the field, and a notification confirms: “[Field] unpinned — the importer can update it again.”
Unpinning is useful when:
- You made an edit by mistake and want to revert to the automatically imported data
- The source post has been updated and you want the importer to pick up the changes
- You temporarily fixed something and the underlying data has been corrected
What doesn’t trigger pinning
Section titled “What doesn’t trigger pinning”Not all changes create a pin:
- Automatic AI translations — when the system generates translations, it doesn’t pin the translation fields
- AI categorization — automatic category assignment doesn’t pin the category
- Automatic imports — the importer itself doesn’t pin anything
Only your manual edits through the Manage dashboard trigger pinning. This means the system can keep improving auto-generated content (like translations) until you step in and make a manual change.
Example workflow
Section titled “Example workflow”- Your social media post about a concert is imported to Esora
- The AI extracts the title as “LIVE MUSIC: Jazz Night @BlueCafe” — not ideal
- You edit the title to “Jazz Night at Blue Cafe” — the title field is now pinned
- Next time the importer runs, it finds the same post but skips the title because it’s pinned
- However, if the importer finds an updated price or a new date, those fields are updated normally (they’re not pinned)
- If you later want the importer to manage the title again, click the pin icon to unpin it