Reusing Views

Regions allow editors to determine where on a page a piece of content is shown and with what column layout. When you have created a View and Component Template, you can simply create new templates which reuse the same view but in a different region and using a different layout.

Procedure

  1. Create a copy of your original Component Template.
  2. Open the Component Template for editing.
  3. Edit the title to have a region name in square brackets, for example Special Offer [2-Column], to indicate to the Editor which region the content is placed in when it is added to the page.
  4. Select the Metadata Schema MVC Metadata.
  5. Update the Region View Name field to 2-Column:
  6. Add Components to the Page in using a column layout without having to duplicate any View code.

Results

In the following example, an offer has been added to the normal template and then 2 offers added with the new 2-Column template: