Creating pages with page templates | HCL Digital Experience
From Site Manager, you can create pages based on templates and see your draft pages in context of the site navigation. Page creation is as simple as providing a name, using the generated friendly URL name, and selecting your template.
About this task
Learn more about creating a page with page templates through an example.
You work for Greenwheels travel. You want to add a child page to the Family Travel landing page that contains articles about different trips and tours that families might want to learn more about before planning their next vacation.
Before you create your child page, you select the Family Vacations project from the project menu to enter that project. You plan to add all updates to the Family Travel section to the Family Vacations project.
Procedure
- Turn on Edit Mode from the action bar. Site Manager opens automatically.
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To add a child or sibling page to an existing page, click the page in Site Manager and
click the context menu icon . Click one of the following menu options to create a page:
- To create a child page, click Create Child Page.
- To create a sibling page, click Create Sibling Page.
Note: If you create the page in the wrong place, you can move it later by using the context menu icon for the page.In this example, you click the context menu for Family Travel. Your goal is to create a child page named Travel Articles. -
From the Create Page dialog, specify a Page title and Friendly URL.
In this example, you enter Travel Articles in the Page title field. As you type your page name, the Friendly URL name field is pre-filled for you based on your page title.
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Select a template for your page. To find a template that matches your goal, hover over each
template name and click Show Details to learn more about what is provided
with the template.
Based on the description that displays, you click the Articles template.
- Click Create Page.
Results
- From Site Manager, you click the Travel Articles page that you created from the Articles template. The Articles template includes content by default. Content items are represented in site manager in the site navigation. You can edit the default content items by clicking the context menu icon for one of the content items and then clicking Open Content Form.
- After you create a page, you can edit the page information, change the layout, or add page components and applications to the page. You can also create more content for the Travel Articles page by clicking the context menu icon and then clicking Create Content.