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Component creation and addition

Use Content Types and Content Types configuration to determine what kinds of Components users can create. Use security management and the Event System to determine how newly created Components get added to the Page.

Component creation

You can enable users to create new Components by configuring the following options:

  • By default, users can automatically create new Components of the same Content Type as the Components that are already on the Web page (based on the same Schema, rendered with the same Component Template, and so on).
  • On a Publication level, you can define custom Content Types that a user can also use when creating a new Component.

You can also disable the user from creating any new Components. To do so, switch off automatic Content Type generation in all Page Templates, and define no custom Content Types.

Component addition

You can implement how newly created Components get added to the Web page in one of the following ways:

  • You can grant users the right to add new Components to the Page.
  • You can implement an Event Handler that adds the new Component to the Page.

Refer to the SDL Tridion Sites platform documentation for more information about permission management and event system implementation.