Creating a Page

Create

Unless all pages have been created for you in advance, before you can start creating content, you must create a page:

Navigate to the location where you want to create the new page. 

Open the drop down selector using Create in the toolbar, then select Page from the list:

From the first stage, you can either:

• Select the template you want used to create the new page (either Departmental Content or Redirect Template), then click Next to proceed.
  
• Cancel to abort the process.

This refers to the type of page you are working with.

You will want to select Departmental Content (which is already selected for you).

Most used template options below:

• Departmental Home: This is a Home page – Marketing and Communications creates these as they are considered new sites and must go through the migration process.
• Departmental Content: This is an interior page of your site – it will inherit your site's styling, header, footer, and navigation. The majority of your site should be made up of these page templates.
• Redirect Template: Means that it was created for one of two reasons:
  • 1. It was created to be a placeholder button in your navigation to be directed elsewhere. EVERY site has one for a redirect to your Home page – this way your front-facing users can click this button to navigate back to your home page.
  • 2. It was created for link shortening purposes to send users to a site or page that has a longer/not great URL. These are kind of messy, so we would recommend using the custom Bitly that was created (link.ou.edu/whatever-you-want). Contact cmshelp@ou.edu to request one of these URLs.

From the final stage, you can either:

• Set your page properties, then click Create to actually create the page.
  
  • NOTE: The ONLY field you HAVE to fill out is Title (Name will be automatic based on the Title if not set)
• Use Back to return to template selection.

Key fields are:

• Title:
  • This is displayed to the user and is mandatory.
• Name:
  • This is used to generate the URL. If not specified, the name is derived from the title.
  • If you supply a page Name when creating a new page, AEM will validate the name.
    
  • You cannot submit invalid characters in the Name field. When AEM detects invalid characters the field will be highlighted and an explanatory message shown to indicate the characters that need removing/replacing.
• The minimum information required to create a new page is the Title.
• Use Create to complete the process and create your new page. The confirmation dialog will ask whether you want to Open the page immediately or return to the console (Done):

• The page Title and Name can be created separately but are related:
  
  • When creating a page, only the Title field is required. If no Name is provided at page creation, AEM will generate a name from the first 64 characters of the title (observing the validation set out below). Only the first 64 characters are used in order to support the best practice of short page names.
  • If a page name is manually specified by the author, the 64 character limit does not apply, however other technical limitations on the page name length may.
  • Allowed page NAME characters are:
    • 'a' through to 'z'
    • 'A' through to 'Z'
    • '0' through to '9'
    • _ (underscore)
    • - (hyphen/minus)

If you return to the console you will see your new page:

If you create a page using a name that already exists at that location, the system will automatically generate a variation of the name by appending a number. For example if summer already exists a new page will become summer0.