Creating items to run against
Each type of Compound Template needs a content item to run against: you need to run a Page Template against a Page, a Component Template against a Component and a Template Building Block against a package.
- Creating Pages and Components
- You can run a Compound Template against an existing Page or Component, or you can create a Page or a Component in the Content Manager Explorer. You need to make sure to create an item that has a format the Compound Template expects. For example, if your Compound Page Template contains a Dreamweaver Template Building Block that visualizes the Description metadata field of the Page, then obviously, the Page you create must have a metadata field called Description.
- Creating packages
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Creating a package for your Template Building Block Compound Template to process requires you to first build a Compound Template that produces the package that your Template Building Block Compound Template expects as input. When you have created such a Compound Template and it successfully produces the package you need, you can run the Compound Template that produces the package in Template Builder (as explained in Running Compound Templates), select the last Template Building Block in the sequence, and click the Save Package button in Package view: