Creating an empty Page

Create an empty Page to specify the intended look & feel, structure and behavior of the corresponding published webpage. You create Pages within the Structure Groups of Publications. A Page has a Page Template, which specifies how the published webpage looks and behaves, and a Page Schema, which constrains the Regions and Component Presentations you can place on the Page.

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 that the Page needs:

  • A Page Template, which defines how the published webpage looks and behaves
  • A Page Schema, which constrains which Regions you can place on the Page, and which and how many Component Presentations you can place on the Page. The Page Schema also defines which metadata you can set for the Page. For backward compatibility purposes, a Page Schema is optional. If a Page is not based on a Page Schema, it can only contain Component Presentations, whose number and types are unrestricted.
  • For backward compatibility, you can indicate that a (legacy) Page gets its metadata definition from a separate Metadata Schema, rather than from the Page Schema.

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

    The Page Template that Content Manager uses to determine how the Page will look and behave once it is published. Select Inherit From Parent to use the Page Template associated with the current Structure Group, if it has a Page Template associated with it.

    If the Page Template you selected has a Page Schema associated with it, you see the Page Schema as well. You cannot change this Page Schema directly. (A legacy Page Template does not have a Page Schema associated with it.)

    Metadata Schema

    If you selected a legacy Page Template, with no Page Schema associated with it, but you still want to add metadata to the Page, select a Metadata Schema to use as the basis for the metadata for this Page.

    Alternatively, if you selected a Page Template with an associated Page Schema, select Use this Page Schema as Metadata Schema to let the Page Schema determine which metadata fields this Page gets, if any.

  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.