1. Building Sites with Oracle Content Management
  2. Creating and Editing Sites
  3. Use Site Templates and Themes in Sites
  4. Create a Site Template from a Site

Create a Site Template from a Site

If you have a site that you want to use as a starting point for other sites, you can create a site template from that site.

Note:

To create a site template from a site, you must have the Downloader, Contributor, or Manager role for the site.

In addition, your administrator must enable the options in the Create menu. If you don’t see the Create menu on the site templates page, contact your administrator.

These steps show how to create a site template from a site. You can also import a site template package that you created or modified offline. See Export and Import Site Templates.

Note:

If you are creating a site template from a site that uses content from multiple repositories, you need to do so using the Oracle Content Management Toolkit. See Develop with Oracle Content Management Toolkit and Use the cec Command-Line Utility.

To create a site template from a site using the Oracle Content Management web interface:

  1. Click Sites and select the site you want to use.
  2. Choose Create Site Template in the right-click menu or click Create Site Template from Site icon in the actions bar.
  3. Enter a name for the site template. You can use letters, numbers, underscores (_), and hyphens (-). If you enter a space, it's automatically replaced with a hyphen.

    Don’t use the following names for site templates, themes, components, sites, or site pages: authsite, content, pages, scstemplate_*, _comps, _components, _compsdelivery, _idcservice , _sitescloud, _sitesclouddelivery, _themes, _themesdelivery. Although you can use the following names for site pages, don’t use them for site templates, themes, components, or sites: documents, sites.

  4. Enter an optional description for the site template.
  5. Choose whether you’ll include unpublished content items and digital assets in the site template.
  6. When you’re ready, click Create Site Template.

When the site template is created, the name appears in the list of site templates. To see all site templates, click Developer and then View All Templates. You can control how site templates are displayed by clicking the view icon and selecting an option from the list.

View Menu

To view the folders and files associated with a site template, choose Open from the right-click menu or click Open icon in the actions bar. To view or change the name, description, and other details about the site template, such as requiring a site security taxonomy, click the site template name or choose Details in the right-click menu or click Site Template details icon in the actions bar.

The new site template uses a copy of the site as its default site. The site template references the theme used by the site and any custom components used in the site pages. The theme and custom components are not copied to the site template, but are referenced in the same way they are by the site.

If the site template was created from an enterprise site, the localization policy and default language used by the original site will be selected by default for any new sites created from the site template.

The site template reflects the site used to create it at the time the site template is created. Any future changes to the site used to create the site template are not reflected in the site stored with the site template.