---
title: "Content collections"
slug: "content-collections"
abstract: "Overview of content collections and content collection states."
---
# Content collections

Content collections bring together content items that have a common property or purpose. They let you create, manage, and share channel-specific content for easy reuse. For example, all the content items used in the launch of the Fruitful Campaign (such as blogs, social media posts, recipes, white papers, and emails) are contained in one content collection called *Fruitful Launch Campaign*.

> [!note]
> By default, you can add only content items to a content collection. However, as a *superuser*, you can configure Sitecore Content Hub to work with other entity definitions. For instance, to add new or existing [products](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch/en/users/content-hub/get-started-with-product-content.html "Get started with product content"), follow [this example](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch/en/users/content-hub/extend-content-collections.html "Extend content collections").

You can access content collections from the menu bar by clicking **Collections**. From here, you can browse existing collections and [create new ones](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch/en/users/content-hub/create-content-collections.html "Create content collections") as needed.

## Content collection states

The content collection state flow determines the lifecycle of a content collection and has three states available by default:

- *In progress* - each new collection begins as *In progress*, and stays that way until you finalize it.
- *Final* - if you click **Done** for a collection, it is set it as *Final*, ready for publication.
- *Archive* - if you click **Archive** for a collection, it is set as *Archive*.

You can return a content collection state to *In progress* by clicking **Start over**. After a content collection has been archived, you can click **Unarchive** to return it to the *Final* state.