Creating a custom page type

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If Portal's base page types do not provide enough flexibility, you can create additional custom page types to meet your requirements.

When you create a custom page type, you are not creating a new page in your page group. You are creating a new type of page in addition to the page types already defined.

After you create a page type, you must make the page type available to users of the page group. Users will not see the page type, and will not be able to add a page of that type, until the page type is added to the list of visible page types.

Note: You must be the page group administrator, the portal administrator, or have Manage privileges on All Page Groups to create a custom page type.

To create a custom page type:

1. In the Navigator, click the Page Groups tab.

2. Navigate to the following path:

   Path: Page Groups > PageGroupDisplayName > Custom Types

   where PageGroupDisplayName is the page group in which you want to create the custom page type.

   Note: If you want to share this custom page type across multiple page groups, create it in the Shared Objects page group.

3. In the Page Types row, click Create.

4. In the Name field, enter a name for the custom page type. The name is used internally only.

   Note: The name must be unique within the page group and the Shared Objects page group, is limited to 30 characters, and can contain only alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9) and the underscore character (_); no spaces or special characters.

5. In the Display Name field, enter a descriptive name for the custom page type. The display name is used in the Navigator and in the create page Page Type list, so shorter display names are better.

   Note: The display name is limited to 60 characters, and can contain any character, including spaces.

6. In the Base Page Type list, choose the base page type from which to inherit attributes.

7. Click Create.

   A message is displayed at the top of the page to confirm that the page type has been created.

8. You can now either click the page type link in the confirmation message to further define your new custom page type, create additional custom page types, or click Close to return to the Navigator.

Related topics

What are page types?
Changing a custom page type's basic properties
Adding attributes to a custom page type
Adding procedure calls to a custom page type
Deleting a custom page type
Choosing the page types available in a page group

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