Creating & Opening a Page in AEM

This section describes how to create and manage pages with AEM so that you can then create content on those pages.

Note - Your account needs the appropriate access rights and permissions to take action on pages such as create, copy, move, edit, and delete. If you encounter any problems, we suggest you reach out to aem@cru.org.

Page Naming Conventions

When creating a new page, there are two key fields:

• Title
  • This is displayed to the user in the console and shown at the top of the page content when editing
  • This field is mandatory

• Name
  • This is used to generate the URL
  • User input for this field is optional. If not specified, the name is derived from the title. To see best practices for naming conventions, be sure to visit Adobe's documentation on it.
  • While this field is optional, we recommend you specify it with a short file name and NO punctuation or capitalization. Just lowercase and hyphens "-".

Templates

In AEM, a template specifies a specialized type of page. A template is used as the basis for any new page being created. The template defines the structure of a page including a thumbnail image and other properties. Cru uses 3-4 main template types. While there are more, we will go over the most common template types used on our sites.

These templates include:

• Cru Content Page
  •    This template is a landing page template. Many of the older sites are using this template.
     
• Cru Landing Page Template
  • This template is the newer landing page template, it does not have the 3 initial layout containers that the content page template has, but it has extra functionality including the ability to add individual styles as well as make the page more responsive
     
• Cru Article
  •    This template is an article template. There is a distinct difference between the landing page template and an article page template. 
    
    
• Cru Article Template (New)
  • This template goes along with any site that uses the new templates with the Core Components.
     
• Cru Home Page
  • The home page template is an important piece of your website. Configuring the properties of a home page template affect SEO, as well as the user experience when visiting your site's header and footer.
     
• Redirect
  • The redirect template's sole purpose is for linking an external source. Editing the redirect must be done from the properties of the page, not in the editor interface.
     

Create and Open

After you choose the appropriate template and enter in the appropriate Title and Name, you will need to click on the blue Create button. Once your page is created, you can open it within the navigation of your site.