Thank You @SantoshSai @AmitVishwakarma @giuseppebag , All the approaches work fine. I got the idea from all of them, retrieved the template type, and then, only for that template type, set the text property as the page title in the Sling model. I can't mark all the answers as correct above, but than...

@giuseppebag , Thank you so much for the reply. I don’t want to edit the text component since it’s used on many other pages—I just want to update the template by setting a default value for the text component.

Is there a way to use page property values in the initial template? For example, I’ve added a text component in initial/.content.xml—can I dynamically use the page title from the page properties as the text value in this component?<textjcr:created="{Date}2024-03-06T01:11:46.178-05:00"jcr:createdBy="...