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Create a Publication Template

Before you create a publication template, we recommend that you read the Publication Templates article, to get familiar with the concept and expected result.

First, you create a publication template in the Templates section and then you build its structure with:

Note

You can create new topics in a publication template in the Contributor Editor's Edit View.

However, adding topics in Edit View will not result in Topic Templates. Instead, these become reused topics saved in your Contributions folder.

Paligo content manager sidebar shows the Documents section. Inside it, there are special folders named Contributions Frank, Contributions Hank, Contributions Jakob, and Contributions Marek.

Topic templates can only be created from the Templates section in Content Manager or inside the Structure View of the publication template.

To create a publication template:

  1. Find the Templates section in the Content Manager.

    Content Manager has Documents, Media, Templates, Variable sets, Users, Trash, Taxonomy Manager sections. Templates is highlighted.

  2. Select the dotted menu (...) for the Templates section and select Create Content.

  3. Enter the settings for the publication template:

    • Enter a name

    • Select the Publication option

    • Add the Languages you want the template to support.

    Create content dialog for templates. There is a field to enter a name, options for selecting the document type and publication is selected. There is also a section for choosing languages.

  4. Select OK to confirm.

    Paligo creates your publication template and saves it in the Templates section of the Content Manager.

    Tip

    You can add folders in the Templates section by selecting the dotted menu (...) for Templates, and choose Create folder. The folders are useful for organizing your templates.

  5. Select the publication template in the Content Manager to open the Structure View.

    Content Manager sidebar showing the template is selected. The structure dialog is shown next to it, and is empty.

  6. Select New topic to create a new template topic inside the publication template.

  7. Give the template a suitable name.

    Content Manager sidebar showing the template is selected. The structure dialog is shown next to it, and contains three topics.

    Note

    You can also create topic templates from the dotted menu (...) in the Templates section. Select Create content and then choose to create a topic.

    Any content that you create in the Templates section is a template.

  8. Repeat step 6 and 7 until you have added all of the new topic templates that you want to include in the publication template.

  9. Drag-and-drop regular topics from the Content Manager into the publication template structure.

    The topic is added, and when you base a new publication on this template, it will reuse the topic.

  10. Select Save. Save icon.

Your template is now ready to be used as the basis for new "real" publications. To find out how to do that, see Create a New Publication Based on a Template.