Creating Dynamic Component Templates
In the Content Manager Explorer you can open a Compound Component Template and set whether Component Presentations based on this Component Template will be added dynamically or statically to a Page.
Procedure
- Open the Content Manager Explorer.
- Navigate to a Publication and open a Folder that contains Compound Component Templates.
- Open the Compound Component Template by double-clicking it, or by right-clicking it and selecting Open from the context menu.
- In the General tab, specify the behavior of Component Presentations that use this Component Template. In the Component Presentations based on this Component Template will be drop-down menu:
- Select Published embedded on a Page if you have a static Web site or if the Component Presentations you create using this Component Template will only appear on one Web page on your Web site.
- Select Published as a dynamic Component if you have a dynamic Web site and if the Component Presentations you create using this Component Template are likely to appear on multiple Web pages on your Web site.
- If you select Published as a dynamic Component, the Allow on Page using dynamic assembly check box appears. Selecting the check box means that end users in Content Manager Explorer can manually add a Component combined with this Component Template to a Page (dynamic inclusion). Deselecting the check box means that Component Presentations created using this Component Template can only be added to a Web page by a query or other code on the Web site.
- Click Save and Close to update the Compound Component Template.