Problem Statement
You are using XML Documentation to author XML/DITA content and one of the publish output is AEM Sites.
You want to use an existing AEM Sites template in order to use the pre-designed header/footer (branding, styles etc.) used on your marketing or end user portal (instead of out-of-the-box templates that comes with XML Documentation)
For reference, lets take an example of we-retail website (AEM sample site) that has an already defined design. The left picture is an out-of-the-box template from XML Documentation, the right one is same content but using AEM's we-retail editable template.
This article will give details on how you can make use of existing AEM Sites templates to publish DITA/XML content
Some understanding towards the solution
In this article:
Steps to configure and use existing AEM Sites template for XML/DITA content output
Step 1: Create a template configuration that points to your existing template
Lets assume you created this at path "/apps/dita-demo/config/templates/weretail-techdocs". The configuration should have following properties:
The above properties are key drivers to adapt to the custom AEM sites template. The other properties shown in the screenshot below can be defined on need basis - those are also detailed out in section "Customize design template for generating output" of Installation and Configuration Guide of XML Documentation
With above settings, you are not creating any new template but just creating a configuration that points to an existing AEM Sites template. This configuration is used by DITAMap to pubilsh the DITA content to AEM Sites output.
You can download above configuration using link provided in the "Sample Configuration" section at the bottom of this article
Step 2: Adapt the used template to add placeholder for "topicContentNode" and "topicHeadNode"
From Step 1, lets assume you used the existing template "/conf/we-retail/settings/wcm/templates/experience-page", so the structure of this template should contain the nodes needed by "topicContentNode" and "topicHeadNode".
Refer screenshot below for details:
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Step 3: Point the DITAMap to the new configuration
With above 2 steps your template and configuration are set. Now you can use this template/configuration to publish a map to desired destination. For that:
Sample Configuration
The configuration created in Step 1 can also be installed using the package which is available for download here
Additional Resources
Read more about Editable Templates
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Hi ,
How to consider the path for topicContentNode and topicHeadNode?
also above properties are mandatory ?
Thanks in advance.
These paths are the nodes under the generated page where the content of topic and topic head gets generated. Following description is the snippet from Installation and configuration guide:
These two properties are mandatory - or else the DITA content will not be added to the generated page.
Thanks for your information.
I have tried but not reflecting header and footer.
What are preconditions for editable template?
Like only Header and Footer should be added in IntialContent of editable template and reaming content should add on page- template should be like this
can you suggest how exactly the template should be?
Created editable template and authored the Text Component( for Header/Footer) in IntialContent and same template configured -/apps/fmdita/config/templates/xxx-dita-content) topicPageTemplate. but not working -not reflecting this header and footer after generate AEM sites-.
can you please suggest and thanks in advance.
HI DivrajSingh,
I applied this path "/apps/fmdita/config/templates/xxx-dita-content" in design while AEM-sites generates.
Thanks in advance
HI DivrajSingh,
where can we check this topicPagetemplate-(custom ediatable template) on content page?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks,
Venkatesham
Hi @Apmag ,
If you are asking about the configuration "topicPageTemplate" - this is added on the new config that you can create, refer Step1 of the original post on this page.
The generated page uses this config to create page that uses this value as cq:template.
Hi @DivrajSingh,
Thanks a lot for your support.
I have followed all the steps in locally but not working.
The cq:template value not update with topicPageTemplate value after page creation.
Even i changed manually but not working.
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It seems you did already publish to the same target "/content/output/sites" once using the default config "/libs/fmdita/config/templates/default" before using the weretail-techdocs config - because of which the settings are from default template.
To explain - the template settings are set only on the initial publish/output generation with "Overwrite Content" option for property: "Existing Output Pages" on map dashboard (see screenshot below), and as you know this is designed to support the use cases where you want an existing page content to not get wiped off every time the DITA content is refreshed.
So to test, you can either publish it to a different target (other than /content/output/sites) or you may delete the sites page hierarchy "/content/output/sites/apmag-dita-map_ditamap" and then generate the output again.
Hi @DivrajSingh ,
Thanks a lot and thank you so much for your support.
No i am able to apply custom template-( with Delete and Create) but DITA content is not loading.
So we can discuss in next call.
Actual Template :
Actual DITA Content Page
But getting the below page after apply custom template
So not displaying the DITA content and also starting page also not reflected with custom template.
Starting page :
we will discuss in next call. Thanks in advance.
Thanks,
Venkatesham,
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if i update the landingPagetemplate value with cutstom-editable-tmeplate (/conf/we-retail/settings/wcm/templates/experience-page) then template applied but DITA Content not loading.
Thanks in advance.
For understanding how editable templates are setup, you can refer to the samples site (weretail) page "/content/we-retail/us/en" which uses the component "/apps/weretail/components/structure/page" - from where you can follow how header and footer are aded to their pages.
We used the content page template "/conf/we-retail/settings/wcm/templates/experience-page" which also uses the same component "/apps/weretail/components/structure/page" to render the page content - to see how header works you can check the "/apps/weretail/components/structure/header" component.
For more details on editable template, you can refer to additional resources section of the article that points to "Read more about Editable Templates"
If you need specific support on working with Editable templates, I would recommend to raise a separate post on this community.
Hi ,
I followed steps mentioned but as others, I am also facing same issue. DITA map is getting applied but content is not appearing. Do you know where i am going wrong?
@MayurSatav : possibly please share the DITA content package along with the template configuration you created.
Hi @DivrajSingh ,
I am sharing the DITA content package please check
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WYsAUv-BjFM2LJrNlckZWa2wz2okGTTK/view?usp=sharing
You can refer below screenshot for configuration
Hey @MayurSatav, @DivrajSingh
Did you get any resolution for the above mentioned problem?
I am also getting the same DITA Map is getting applied but content is not appearing?
Also, how can I style my DITA content ?
Note:*Citi is the name of my map.
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@Sudeep09 @MayurSatav : After few rounds of review we found that the article had a missing section - the description of this post is updated to fix the html issue - you will now see "Step 2" which was missing earlier in this article ... hope this works for anyone who plans to use it.
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