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Creating an new page in Content Manager Explorer

A page in Content Manager corresponds to a unit of publishable content, which is typically a webpage on a website. Regions further subdivide a page into smaller content areas. 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 structure group where the page is being created.

Procedure

  1. Within a publication, go to the structure group in which you want to create the new 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 wherever it appears in the Content Manager user interface. 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 of the page.

    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.

    Select an appropriate page template according to the publishing model and guidelines provided by your organization. The page template is required regardless of the publishing model being used.

    Inherit from parent

    When selected, the page uses the page template that is associated with the current structure group (if there is one associated).

    Clear this option to select a different page template.

    Page schema

    The page schema associated with the selected the page template (if there is one associated).

    You cannot change the page schema while editing a page. The page schema is defined in the page template.

    • 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 page schema may also define metadata that you can (or must) define for the page.
    Region schema

    Each region that is present has a region schema. The individual region schemas can restrict the page structure beyond the restrictions of the page schema.

    You cannot change a region schema while editing a page. Region schemas are defined in the page schema.

    • The region schema(s) may constrain the number and types of components (or component presentations) you can place specifically in each region.
    • The region schema(s) may define metadata that you can (or must) define for a region.
    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. With the preceding items defined for the new page, you can now do the following from the Design tab:
    • Add components to the page or its regions
    • Add page or region metadata
    What you are allowed to add to the page or to any individual region depends on the constraints of the associated page and region schemas. Refer to the constraints information for details on what is or is not allowed.
  5. Click the Save and Close button on the toolbar.

Results

You have created an empty page. 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.