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Page Templates - Editable by Adobe Docs

Abstract

Editable templates have been introduced to:

Allow specialized authors to create and edit templates.

Such specialized authors are called template authors
Template authors must be members of the template-authors group.
Provide templates that retain a dynamic connection to any pages created from them. This ensures that any changes to the template are reflected in the pages themselves.

Make the page component more generic so the core page component can be used without customization.

With editable templates, the pieces that make a page are isolated within components. You can configure the necessary combinations of components in a UI, thereby eliminating the need for a new page component to be developed for each page variation.

NOTE
Static templates are also available.

This document:

Gives an overview of creating editable templates

For details see Creating Page Templates
Describes the admin/developer tasks required to create editable templates

Describes the technical underpinnings of editable templates

This document assumes that you are already familiar with creating and editing templates. See the authoring document Creating Page Templates, which details the capabilities of editable templates as exposed to the template author.

NOTE
Following tutorial might also be of interest for setting up an editable page template in a new project:
Getting Started with AEM Sites Part 2 - Creating a Base Page and Template

Creating a New Template
Creating editable templates is primarily done with the template console and template editor by a template author. This section gives an overview of this process and follows with a description of what occurs at a technical level.

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