Pages are based on page templates. A page definition knows which script
should be used to render a page. It may also define areas. You can
configure a template in a
YAML file
or a JCR node.
When visible is set to false, the template is not available.
However, the opposite is not always true. There are more ways to control
page
template availability.
type
optional, default is content
Assigns a type to the template. Types control template
availability in the page hierarchy. For example type home is available
at the site root level, section at level 2, and content at level 3.
See
Page
template availability on how to use the type property.
This property is different from the type property in
Area
definition.
subtype
optional
Assigns a subtype to the template. You can use
subtypes to aggregate content. For example, aggregate all content pages
of subtype news into a teaser component. There are no default values
and you can use arbitrary values to categorize your templates in any way
you like.
autoPopulateFromRequest
optional, default is true
The population of request parameters is typically enabled globally in
/server/rendering/engine. Add this property and set to false to
override the global setting. See
Populating
the rendering model with request parameters for more.
Green bars for editors are placed inside the elements listed (by default done for the div element).
Configuring this property can be useful where custom HTML elements can have different names.
In those cases containerElements ensures that the green bars appear in the best location.
The optional subtype property is useful for aggregating related page
templates. For example, you could use this property to aggregate the
latest news articles and then create a component that displays a list of
excerpts that point to the news pages.
There are no default values and you can use arbitrary values to
categorize your templates in any way you like.
Adding page areas
Page area definitions are added in the areas node of a page template.
How to configure area definitions is covered in
Area definition.
This example configuration adds two areas to a page template.