Create web content page templates

Create web content page templates to quickly deploy new pages containing web content. With a template, we can define the layout and presentation of the page, including adding web content viewers configured to render web content.

When a page is created from the template, the site structure required in the web content library is also created automatically. For example, if managed pages are enabled, a site area that corresponds to the page hierarchy is created in the Portal Site library. If managed pages are disabled, a site area is created as a child of the site area associated with the parent page of the new page. We can access the resulting site structure in the Web Content Manager authoring portlet.

1. Use the administration interface, navigate to the page templates location. We can access this location from either of the following paths:

   • Click Portal User Interface > Page Templates.

     This path uses the site toolbar that is included with the Portal 8.0 theme.

   • Click Portal User Interface > Manage Pages > Content Root > Hidden Pages > Page Templates.

2. Create a page. When we create the page, use the Basic template and then define a content association for the page. The content contained in the mapped site area is copied to any page created from this page template.

3. Edit the layout of the page and add any web content viewers or other portlets to include in the template.

   If we add a viewer intended to render content that is copied when the page is created, then configure the viewer:

   1. Select Edit Shared Settings.

   2. Select Select content and use the content association of current page from the Content behavior section. This setting causes the viewer to reference content from the site area defined in the content association the page containing the viewer.

      If you did not add a content association to the page template, this option is not available.

After creating the template page, the new template is displayed in the list of available templates when creating a page.

Parent: Customize web content delivery