How Do I ... Change a page template for an existing page?
There are times when you may need to change the page template assigned to a page. We don't encourage this practice, but if you need to change a page template it can be done by a web administrator role that has requested access to the CRX/DE administrative interface in Ensemble.
Web administrators can submit a support ticket to request access to the CRX/DE administrative interface. It is highly recommended that you familiarize yourself and make test changes on the pre-production (PPRD) server, and when you are comfortable to make any necessary changes on the production author environment.
NOTE: If you are making changes to a published page, you will need to republish the page after saving changes in CRX/DE to see the changes. You may also need to flush the site cache by publishing your site home page or another page at that level.
Open a browser window and enter the following URL for the authoring environment you want to access, PPRD or PROD:
Copy the /content link for the page you want to update, without the ".html" at the end, example:
/content/somesite_vt_edu/en/test-page
Press RETURN/ENTER on your keyboard to find and select that page.
The page you want to update should now appear in an expanded content tree view in the left sidebar of the CRX/DE interface.
Click the plus ("+") sign to the left of the page node to expand it.
Click on the title of the jcr:content node that appears directly under the page node. Make sure not to enter rename mode.
NOTE: Click off the node and back again to exit rename mode.
IMPORTANT: Do not press the enter key in any field related to a node in the CRX/DE interface.
Once the jcr:content node for the page is selected, a Properties dialog will appear in the bottom pane of the CRX/DE interface.
The two property values to change are:
- cq:template
- sling:resourceType
You will be double-clicking on each of these fields and changing the first part of the hyphenated template name to match the page type you want. The options are:
- article
- bio
- general
- home
- redirect
- resource
- search
IMPORTANT: Do not press the enter key in any field related to a node in the CRX/DE interface.
Change each property value and then click off the field within the same properties pane. You will see a red triangle appear in the top-left corner of each updated field.
Once the changes are acknowledged in all fields with the red triangle, you now need to click the Save All button in the top-left corner of the CRX/DE interface window.
The page template will now be changed for the selected page when the page is either reloaded or opened in the Edit interface in Ensemble.
NOTE: The page icon may not change immediately (or at all) within the My Sites interface, but the structure of the page should now match the updated template.
