Default page templates

Leo,

Dmitry is right - you need a filter to limit which templates are available for each Page. The filter lets you inspect the request context and then filter down the full set of templates to just the ones that should be available for a content manager to select when creating a page.

If you are looking for additional information about Page Templates, checkout my blog post Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: MVC is Dead, Long Live PTVC or NuGet package Xperience Page Template Utilities

Thank you Dmitri and Sean!

I'll sure use the default page template filters later on.

But, my problem was that I found out that only for the 'Home' Page Type, the features 'Page Builder', 'URI' and 'Navigation' were enabled. I've selected these three features for another page type 'ABC' and all the Default page templates that were showing to 'Home' page type started to show also on this 'ABC'.

Was that really the reason ? So to be able to select a Default page template, the page type has to have these features enabled ?

Thank you very much !

Hi Leo,

From the list you mentioned I think 'Page Builder' feature should be essential to select the template. And here are the reasons why:

• as you may have read, Page Builder interface is iframed into CMS screen from MVC application
• MVC templates, as well as the selection interface of the template, are parts of MVC application, therefore it could only be displayed when this content is iframed
• this iframe is only displayed on Page tab
• Page tab is only displayed when you select 'Page builder' feature

Other features are not important for this to work I'm pretty sure.

Leo,

The Page Builder feature is the only one you need enabled on a Page Type to be able to switch (select) Page templates. The other two (URL, Navigation) are unrelated.