Creating a Region Schema or Page Schema

Create a Region Schema to define which, and how many, Regions and/or Component Presentations a Region based on this Region Schema can contain.

Procedure

  1. In Content Manager Explorer, navigate to a Publication and Folder in which you want to create the Region Schema.
  2. In the Create ribbon tab, select New Schema.
    The Schema dialog opens.
  3. On the General tab, provide values for the Name and Description fields. The Name field must be a unique name in the Folder in which you create this Region Schema.
  4. Also on the General tab, set Schema Type to the value Region Schema.
  5. By default, the Region can contain any number of Component Presentations of any kind, and no other Regions. To change these defaults, select the Design tab.
  6. If you do not want your authors to be able to add any Component Presentations directly in this Region, in the area called Configure Number of Components Allowed in the Region, select This Region must be empty.
  7. If you do want your authors to be able to add Component Presentations directly in this Region, and you want to restrict which kinds of Component Presentations they can add, do the following:
    1. In the area called Schema and Component Template Constraints in this Region, select Add constraint.
      A Component Template dropdown and a Schema dropdown appear.
    2. To restrict the Component Template used to render Components, select that Component Template from the Component Template dropdown. You can select to allow Components based on any Schema associated with this Component Template (the value All Schemas Allowed), or you can further restrict the author by also selecting a Schema.
    3. To restrict the Schema on which the Components can be based, select that Schema from the Schema dropdown. You can select to allow Components rendered with any Component Template associated with this Schema (the value All Component Templates Allowed), or you can further restrict the author by also selecting a Component Template.
    4. If you want to allow further Component Presentations directly in this Region, select Add constraint again to add another constraint. Authors can add a Component Presentation if it satisfies at least one constraint; it does not need to satisfy all constraints.
  8. Also, if you do want your authors to be able to add Component Presentations directly in this Region, specify the number of Component Presentations they can add by doing one of the following in the area called Configure Number of Components Allowed in the Region:
    • To allow your authors to put any number of Component Presentations directly in this Region, select No upper limit (No maximum).
    • To allow your authors to put no more than a specific number of Component Presentations directly in this Region, select the option next to No upper limit (No maximum) and enter that number.
  9. If you want Regions based on this Region Schema to contain further Regions, in the Nested Regions area, select Add below the empty list. On the right, do the following:
    1. Give your nested Region a name in the Name field. The name can be up to 64 characters long, and can contain letters, digits, common Western punctuation marks and whitespace characters (but cannot begin with a whitespace character).
    2. Select a Region Schema for this nested Region from the Schema dropdown.
      A description of the selected Region Schema appears.

    You can select Add again to create further nested Regions.

  10. If you want to define metadata fields for Regions based on this Region Schema, select the Metadata Design tab. In this tab, define as many metadata fields as you want, of any type you want, and configure each field as needed. Refer to the documentation about fields and field types to learn which options are available to you.
  11. Select Save and Close to commit your changes.

Results

You have created a Region Schema. You can use this Region Schema in the following ways:
  • You can select this Region Schema from the Schema dropdown in the Nested Regions area of the Design tab of another Region Schema.
  • You can select this Region Schema from the Page Template dropdown on the General tab of a Page Template, to associate it with that Page Template (it is then known as a Page Schema).

Note that you cannot create a Region based on this Region Schema as a separate item in a Folder, like you can with, say, a Component or a Bundle. Regions do not exist as separate items in Content Manager Explorer, but always as part of a Page.