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Creating an empty Page

Create an empty Page to specify the intended structure and behavior of the corresponding published content. You create Pages within the Structure Groups of Publications.

Before you begin

To create a Page, you must have Page Management rights, as well as write permissions for the containing Structure Group.

About this task

When you create a Page, you initially specify the basic building blocks of the Page as follows:

  • You select a Page Template to define how the published webpage is generally constructed and behaves. The Page Template is required regardless of the publishing model being used.
    • In a template-based publishing model, the Page Template normally includes Template Building Blocks that define branding and other design elements. ,
    • In a data-only publishing model, selecting a Page Template is required although the Page Template itself is empty, that is, with no Template Building Blocks. The look and feel of content is removed from the template and done instead by the application that uses the published content, such as a website, mobile app or a kiosk display screen.
    • When using Regions, map a Region Schema to the Page Template to define the Page structure.
  • The Page Template typically designates a Page Schema, which defines a Page structure with one or more Regions. The exception is if your organization is not using Regions. When present, each Region also has a Region Schema. Both the Page Schema and Region Schemas may constrain the content you can place on the page as follows:
    • The Page Schema can restrict the number and types of Components (or Component Presentations) you can place on the Page. If a Page has nested Regions, this restriction applies only to the top level of the Page and excludes the nested Regions.
    • The individual Region Schemas can further restrict the number and types of Components (or Component Presentations) you can place specifically in each Region.
    • The Page Schema or Region Schema(s) may also define metadata that you can (or must) define for the Page or a Region.

Procedure

  1. In Content Manager Explorer, navigate to the Publication and Structure Group in which you want to create the Page.
  2. In the Create tab of the Ribbon, click New Page.

    A New Page window appears.

  3. On the General tab, fill in the following fields:
    FieldDescription
    Name

    A display name for this Page in Content Manager Explorer. The name must be unique within the current Structure Group.

    File name

    A filename (without file extension) for the published webpage on the website. The filename must be unique within the current Structure Group.

    Page Template

    A Page Template to define general structure and behavior. Select an appropriate Page Template according to the publishing model and gridlines provided by your organization.

    Select Inherit From Parent to use the Page Template associated with the current Structure Group, if it has a Page Template associated with it, or clear this option to select a different Page Template.

    If the Page Template you select has a Page Schema associated with it, you see the Page Schema as well. You cannot change this Page Schema directly.

    Metadata Schema

    A schema to use as an alternative to the Page Schema for determining which metadata fields to include on the Page.

    If the Page Template has an associated Page Schema that includes metadata, select Use this Page Schema as Metadata Schema. In this case, you do not need to select a separate Metadata Schema.

    Otherwise, you can select a Metadata Schema:
    • When the Page Template does not define a Page Schema, and you want to add metadata to the Page.
    • When the Page Template defines a Page Schema, but you still want separately define a schema for metadata.
  4. Click the Save and Close button on the toolbar.
  5. Depending on the Structure Group in which you created this Page, you may now be prompted to add this Page to a Bundle so that it can enter workflow. You can choose to skip this step, but until you add it to a Bundle, your changes will not be checked in.
  6. If this item must be added to a Bundle, a dialog opens asking you if you would like to do so now. You can choose Not Now to close the dialog, but you see a warning informing you that your item is not in a Bundle, and the same dialog will appear every time you save changes to the item. Alternatively, if you select Add, a Bundle selection dialog appears.
  7. In the tree structure on the left, navigate to a Publication and Folder that contains a Bundle to which you want to add the item, and add it to that Bundle by selecting the Bundle and clicking Add. This adds the item to the selected Bundle and closes the dialog. If the Bundle is already in workflow, the item will be too. You can also select Close, which has the same effect as clicking Not Now in the previous dialog.

Results

You have created an empty Page.