Properties tab

A number of settings which are to be valid for the corresponding page template are defined on the Properties tab. The tab is further divided into the General and Content area areas.

General

Reference name

A unique identifier under which the template will be saved in the file system is entered in this field.

Comment

A comment that describes the page template in more detail can be entered here.

File extension

Each presentation channel features a table row with information on the template set, whether it can be overwritten (replaced), and the target extension.

Template set: Name and type of the template sets defined for the current project in the ServerManager application.
Replaceable: If the box is checked, the file extension can be overwritten by a section template.       
Target ext.: The extension of the template to which the link is to be made. Double-click the field to edit the extension.

Preview page

A page in which this template is used can be selected from the Site Store store here. In this way, changes made to the template can be checked directly in the Template Store with the preview function.

Preview image

Click the icon to select a preview graphic created previously.

Form

Click the “Default values” button to open a dialog listing the defined input forms for this page template. Default settings for the individual fields can be edited here.

For more detailed information about default values, see the “Template development / Forms” section.

In selection list

show: The editor can use this template when creating a new page.
hide: This template is not displayed when creating a new page.

Content areas

This is where the section and table templates that can be added in the individual content areas are specified.

Section Templates

any: All available section and table templates can be used for each content area.    
selected: Only the selected section or table templates can be used for a content area.

List of content areas

Click on the icons on the top right to add a new content area to the page template, delete an existing content area, or resort the list of content areas.

Just like all other templates, content areas can be created language-dependent and thus can be provided with one (or more) language-dependent reference names and one unique reference name.

A detailed view is displayed underneath for each of the selected content areas in the table.

Detailed view of a content area

For this template

active: The section restrictions applied are taken into account.         
inactive: The section restrictions applied are not taken into account.

Reference name and language tabs

The unique name of the content area and the display names of the available editorial languages (for information on the multi-language concept of FirstSpirit please see chapter Languages in FirstSpirit) can be viewed here.

Allowed section templates

Section restrictions for the page template can be defined here. Click the icon to add section and table templates for the selected content area and the icon to remove them again. For the corresponding content area, this means that only the section and table templates that are selected in each case can be added.

If all section restrictions under a page template are deleted, the creation of sections within a page is no longer subject to any restrictions. This can damage the layout of the page under some circumstances (due to sections being created that are not suitable for the layout of the page, for example).