Managing page template catalog

You can manage the page templates in Site Manager -> Development -> Page templates. Here you can organize the templates into categories, modify their descriptions, etc.

 

Each template has the following properties:

 

General tab

 

Template display name

The name of the template displayed to the users.

Template code name

The name of the template used in the code.

Category

Here you can choose the category of the page template.

Template description

Description.

Template type

Indicates if the page template is a portal page template or ASPX page (the later option is used for backward compatibility with CMS 1.x).

Show as master template

Indicates if the field should be offered in the New site wizard among master page templates. Master page templates are usually used for main menu and logo of the web site.

Inherit content

Configures the visual inheritance as explained in the Visual inheritance chapter.

 

You can choose from the following options:

 

•Inherit all - inherits the content of all parent pages
•Do not inherit any content - displays only the current page without any parent content
•Select inherited levels - displays only content from the chosen content tree levels.

 

 

Sites tab

 

On the Sites tab, you can choose which web sites the page template will be available for.

 

Layout tab

 

Here you can edit the HTML layout of the page template. You can either choose to use some of the pre-defined ("shared") layouts or you can specify your own HTML layout code ("custom layout").

 

Web parts

 

Here you can see the XML document with configuration of the web parts. Use this dialog only in situation when the standard Design dialog doesn't work as expected (e.g. due to some data inconsistency).

 

Header

 

Here you can specify custom HTML code that will be added to the <head> element of the page for all pages that use this page template. It's useful if you need to link some additional CSS or JavaScript files.