Creating and saving templates
The way the templating system works in WebTemplate is as follows.
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You create a template in your file editor. You upload it and install it into WebTemplate.
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Once a page that has loaded with the template, the template is loaded into and stored in the database. This is done to speed up page times.
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When a page loads it checks the uploaded date of the template against the database version and picks the one with the newest date.
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For this reason you should ALWAYS update the file, not the database record. If you update the database record and someone else updates the file, the file will override the database record.
An Example of creating a template
In the steps below we are going to add a new Standard Page Template (Content Template) called "New Template".
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The first thing you have to do is make sure you are in the office.
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Go to 'Content Manager'
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Click on 'Template Manager'
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Click on 'Content Layouts'
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Click 'Create Template'
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Enter the details for the template
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Click the 'Submit' button