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Loading Template Building Blocks

When you create a Publication, SDL Tridion Sites automatically creates the core set of default Template Building Blocks in the Building Blocks\Default Templates\ folder. To use other default Template Building Blocks, you need to load them into Content Manager using Template Builder.

About this task

Core Template Building Blocks
  • Extract Components from Page
  • Extract Components from Regions
  • Convert XML to HTML
  • Default finish actions
  • Publish binaries in package
  • Link Resolver
  • Cleanup Template
  • Target Group Personalization
Additional Template Building Blocks
  • Convert HTML to XML
  • Extract binaries from HTML
  • Image Resizer
  • Activate Tracking

Procedure

  1. Start Template Builder by selecting Start > SDL Group > Template Builder from the Windows menu.
  2. Select Tools > Create Default Building Blocks to load the default Template Building Blocks.
  3. Select a location for the default Template Building Blocks and click OK.

Results

A dialog appears confirming the default templates were successfully installed. When you create a Compound Template, these default templates appear as Building Blocks.

The action overwrites all items created in this folder during installation, including the default Component Template, the default Page Template, and so on and any modifications you may have made to these items will be overwritten. If necessary, you can restore a version using rollback. For more information, refer to the Content Manager Explorer help topics.