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Last reviewed: March 22, 2023
The Demo Sites provide examples of components and templates in use.
| Template | Function | More Details |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Page with Right Sidebar | Most commonly used page template. Creates a page with left navigation, center content area, and right sidebar, that can be adjusted to suit most needs. | |
| Wide Page (no right sidebar) | Creates a page with left navigation, a wide content area, but no right sidebar, that works well for content rich pages. | |
| Wide Page (no left navigation) | Creates a page with center content area and right sidebar, but no left navigation, that works well for content rich pages. | |
| Gallery Page | Creates a page with prebuilt with Photo components in a 3-column layout. | |
| News and Events List | Creates a page with prebuilt with News List and Event List components in a common layout. | |
| Standard Page with Banner Image | Creates the same page as 'Wide Page (no right sidebar)' with an additional large Photo component at the top, that is good for secondary pages that need visual impact. | |
| Contact/Form Page | Creates a page with prebuilt with a Form Container and common form components. | |
| One Column Page (no secondary navigation) | Creates a page that is a blank slate (no sidebars or preloaded content). Very flexible, for special purpose pages only. | |
| Redirect Page | Creates a page that sends people to another page in or outside the UBCMS. It is visible in site navigation, but when someone clicks, they are redirected to the specified URL. | |
| Landing Page (home page) | For home pages or major internal landing pages. Has no sidebars, preloaded content or columns. | |
| Landing Page with Right Column (home page) | For home pages or major internal landing pages. Has a large main image, blocks of columns, and placeholders to house modular content. |
* Examples require signing into the UBCMS author environment.
| Template | Function | More Details |
|---|---|---|
| Parent page for Organization | Used to create a folder, to help you group other Shared Content pages into collections. | |
| Flexible Shared Content Template | Used to create a page that can be populated with any content, to suit most needs when a more specific template is not suitable. | |
| Faces and Voices Template | Used to create pages that deliver Faces and Voices content, with special fields for quote, photo, and text. Often there will be a collection of these pages. | |
| Highlight Template | Used to create pages that will display in carousels, slide decks, and lists and comes prebuilt with special fields for that purpose. This may be a single page or part of a collection. | |
| News Article Template | Used to create pages for use in News Lists and carousels, with special fields for photo, headline, date, body text. Often there will be a collection of these pages. | |
| Faculty Profile Master Template (Authoritative Content) | Only available for use in Authoritative Content profiles folder. These pages have no content except a redirect to the location of their corresponding faculty profile page and tags that support building collections of corresponding departmental profile pages built using the Faculty Profile Template. | |
| Faculty Profile Template (Authoritative Content) | Used to create department-level pages that are then redirected through the Faculty Profile Master Template pages for display on one or more department websites. Often there will be a collection of these pages. | |
| Module Container | Used to create a page that aggregates other Shared Content content for display in a sidebar or homepage cell. | |
| Redirect Page | Used to create a page that sends people to another page in or outside the UBCMS. The page is visible in lists but when someone clicks, they are redirected to the specified URL. | |
| Feed Importer Template | Create a page that will automatically display content from an external RSS feed. |
This information is being fleshed out.
| Template | Function | More Details |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | meant for a simple list of several pages... like the Standard architecture, but can add more elements if needed e.g. header and intro text // if not fully populated, will show your content plus white space | |
| Informational | ||
| Lists | provides a lot of links, e.g. to reveal all your departments in one or more columns but also supports Buttons and other elements | |
| Marketing | ||
| Related Content | ||
| Showcase Gallery | ||
| Showcase Lists | ||
Note: the Basic Template if not fully populated, will show your content plus white space. The rest are all designed to be full width of the page.
