Working with Templates

Using Templates

Except for your Web site’s home page, people get to the pages on your site through hyperlinks. Hyperlinks can appear within content. They also link content items from list summaries, menus, collections, and so on. A template defines the template in which to display the content of a hyperlink. The following example shows that when a user selectsEmail, content item (ID 87) displays within the contactinformation.aspx template.

Declaring a Template

Prerequisite: You must be a member of the Administrators group or in the Manage Members for Role: Template Configuration screen. See Also: Defining Roles.

After creating your templates, declare them within Ektron. To do this, go to the Active System Templates screen, available from Settings > Configuration > Template Configuration.

From this screen, you can add new templates, or delete or update existing ones.

Adding a Template

1. Within the Ektron Workarea, navigate to Settings > Configuration > Template Configuration.
2. Click Add New Template to System. The Add a New Template screen appears.
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3. Enter the path to and name of the new template or click the ellipsis button () and navigate to it.
4. Enter a name and description for the template.
5. Click Add New Template to System.

Deleting a Template

To delete a template, click Delete in the template row.

You can only delete a template if it is not assigned as any folder’s default template. If you choose a template that is assigned as a default, a screen tells you why you cannot delete it and lists the folders for which it is the default. If you delete a template that is not used as a default but is applied to content, that content’s template is changed to its folder’s default template.

Updating a Template

The update procedures allows you to change all references from an old to a new template. For example, your old template is named MyTemplate.aspx. You can want to replace all references to it to Updatetemplate.aspx.

1. Within the Ektron Workarea, navigate to Settings > Configuration > Template Configuration.
2. Click the template that you want to update. A new screen appears.
3. Choose the new template file. You may also update the name or description.
4. Click Update Template.

NOTE: This screen has additional fields when mobile device detection is on and mobile configurations exist. For more information, see Updating a Mobile Template