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The Merge lessons functionality allows you to create a new lesson from a set of pages selected from different lessons. What is more, the Merge lessons functionality indirectly allows multiple users to work simultaneously on one lesson. First, they create different parts of the lesson, and then they simply merge their work into one.

To use the merge functionality, it is necessary to select the content for merging first. This can be done by selecting relevant lessons (hold the CTRL key while clicking the lessons' tiles) and clicking the "Merge" button available above the right panel with the details of the lesson. Then simply check the boxes next to the pages chosen to be included in the merged lesson. Clicking the "Select" button will add the chosen pages to the merge pool.

After selecting the first pages for merge, the content of the merge pool is displayed in the left column view. You can see the names of the lessons selected for merging as well as the number of pages to be added to the merged lesson.

The merge can be canceled at any time. Choosing "Cancel" will clear the merge pool, and the "Merge" section will disappear. Clicking the "Merge" button will create a new lesson containing the previously selected pages. It will not affect the original lessons.

Note:

1. It is best to make sure no one is editing the lessons that have been chosen for merging until the process is completed.
2. The first lesson chosen for merging is the one that defines CSS rules and a template of a newly created lesson; template selections and CSS rules of the later selected lessons will not be taken into account.
3. You may select any page from the "Commons" section for merging except the header and footer. The header and footer are automatically copied from the first selected lesson.
4. Content of chapters with the same name and the same location in the chapter hierarchy will be combined in the newly created lesson.
5. Empty chapters and chapters from which no pages are selected for merging won't be included in the newly created lesson.
6. The newly created lesson will contain all assets from all the lessons included in the merge; therefore, it is good practice to click the "Update" button and apply the "Update Assets" option on the newly created lesson.