Creating site, group, or blog custom content pages

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Custom content pages allow a site administrator, group owner, or blog owner to create a custom page apart from home pages using Telligent Community Server's drag-and-drop widgets. In release 9.0, you can no longer copy custom content pages. You can, however, export or import an existing page.

The management experience for content pages can be accessed:

• As a site administrator - Navigate to Manage Site theme > Manage pages.
• As a group owner - Navigate to Manage group theme > Manage pages.
• As a blog owner - Navigate to Manage blog theme > Manage pages.

From the Manage pages panel, you will be able to:

• View all of the currently created content pages in that context.
• Create new content pages.
• Edit the layout/widgets or definition of existing content pages.
• Delete content pages.

View a custom page

To view a custom page:

1. Navigate to the site, group, or blog home page.
2. Enter the page URL.
   
   1. To get the URL key, click Manage [xx] theme > Manage pages.
   2. Locate the page, or search for "custom" in the search box.
      
   3. Click Edit definition.
   4. Note the URL key.
   5. To view the page, enter /p/[URLkey] after the site URL on a site home page for a site custom page; on a group home page for a group custom page, or on a blog home page for a blog custom page. For example: http://ninezero45261.web.qa.corp.zimbra.com/p/kittens.
3. Click enter to view the page.

Add a custom page

To add a new custom page:

1. Navigate to a site page if you want to create a site custom page; a group page if you want to create a custom page in the group, or to a blog page if you want to create a custom page for the blog.
2. Click Manage [xx] theme. The Manage theme panel appears.
3. Click Manage pages. The Manage pages panel appears.
4. Click Add custom page. The Add custom page panel appears.
   
5. Enter a title in the Title field. This can contain spaces or special characters.
6. Enter the URL key in the URL key field. This can't contain spaces or special characters.
7. Click Save.

Edit a custom page

1. Navigate to the site home page for a site custom page, group home page for a group custom page, or blog home page for a blog custom page.
2. Click Manage [xx] theme. The Manage theme panel appears.
3. Click Manage pages. The Manage pages panel appears.
4. Locate the page in the page list, or type "custom" into the search box to see a list of custom pages.
   
5. Click the page name. The page options appear.
6. Edit layout:
   1. Click Edit layout. Here, you can change the page layout or widgets. Edit the layout or widgets as outlined in Change pages via edit page mode.
7. Edit definition:

1. Click Edit definition. Here, you can change the page name or URL key. Follow the information in the preceding procedure to specify new values for these fields.

Delete a custom page

1. Navigate to the site home page for a site custom page, group home page for a group custom page, or blog home page for a blog custom page.
2. Click Manage [xx] theme. The Manage theme panel appears.
3. Click Manage pages. The Manage pages panel appears.
4. Locate the page in the page list, or type "custom" into the search box to see a list of custom pages.
5. Click the page name. The page options appear.
6. Click Delete.

Pointing users to the custom page

There are several different ways that you can point users to your new content page. The most direct way is to link to your new page. You could also use a dashboard tab in Community Server to point to the custom link; blog about the content page, or add a Generic Content widget to your site/group/blog home page to point users to the new page.