While setting up your Ektron website, you create templates for your Web pages. A template typically includes page headers, footers, and placeholders for content, forms, summaries, and other page elements; a place to display content items from content lists, menus, collectionA list of Ektron content links for display on a Web page.s, and so on through hyperlinks.
The following image shows a template where the top of the screen contains headers that appear on several pages. This image also shows that, when a user selects the Email hyperlink, content item (ID 87) displays within the contactinformation.aspx
template. A developer can modify content within these areas.
NOTE: To learn more about creating templates, see Setting Up a Template.
Prerequisite
You are a member of the Administrators group or assigned to the Manage Members for Role: Template Configuration screen. See also: Defining roles.
After creating 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.
Prerequisite
A developer created the template in Visual Studio. See also: Creating a Template in Visual Studio.
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.
To delete a template:
The update procedures lets you 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
.
Update that content's quicklink in the library. See also: Working with library files.
NOTE: This screen has additional fields when mobile device detection is on and mobile configurations exist. For more information, see Using mobile templates
Each folder must have at least one template, and one template must be chosen as the default. The list of available templates is managed through the Active System Templates screen. See Adding a template.
If you change a folder’s default template, existing template assignments remain, but new content added or moved to the folder assumes the new default template.
By default, folders below the root folder inherit templates from their parent. However, you can assign unique templates to a folder by overriding the inheritance. To do this, go to the Edit Folder Properties screen and uncheck the Inherit Parent Configuration box. If you break inheritance, the inherited templates are assigned to the folder. You can then remove unwanted templates or add new ones.
Prerequisite
At least one template is defined in the Active System Templates screen.
A folder’s default template is automatically applied to all content in the folder. However, you can change a content item’s template to any of those assigned to the folder.
The template assigned to the content is used whenever a hyperlink is created to it.
Prerequisite
At least one template is defined in the Active System Templates screen.