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Automatically Create Node w/ Properties for Embedded Component

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Level 4

We're creating a "form-like" interface in the authoring environment and will be developing several components that are embedded with cq:include into the template. Is there any way to auto-generate those nodes when a new page is created and supply those nodes with default properties? We could do it programmatically in each component but wanted to see if CQ had any built in functionality i was missing. Ex -

With this in our template -

<cq:include path="pageContent/discountOverview" resourceType="/apps/site/components/discountOverview"/>

We'd want to see this node when page is created -
/content/site/../pagetitle/jcr:content/pageContent/discountOverview

 

Thanks

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Employee Advisor

When you want to have some components by default on a page, you can create them directly below the template node. When you create a page, the template node (plus all subnodes) is copied to the position of the page you create.

cheers,
Jörg

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Correct answer by
Employee Advisor

When you want to have some components by default on a page, you can create them directly below the template node. When you create a page, the template node (plus all subnodes) is copied to the position of the page you create.

cheers,
Jörg

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Level 10

When you include that as part of your template, it by default will be part of a page when its created.

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Level 4

Of course, i was trying to figure it out at a component level but it makes sense that it would happen at the template level. Thank you