What kind of pages do you templatize?

turtleking

Hey everyone, I just joined the forum and was wondering what kind of pages make good candidates for templatizing. So far we're looking at pages that get updated frequently and have relatively standardized content. A lot of these pages have relatively simple code though and updating the content would almost be easier just modifying the code rather than filling out a teamsite DCR.

We have a lot of developers with experience modifying code like this so it woudln't even be an issue of people not being tech-savvy.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Adam Stoller

Hey everyone, I just joined the forum and was wondering what kind of pages make good candidates for templatizing. So far we're looking at pages that get updated frequently and have relatively standardized content. A lot of these pages have relatively simple code though and updating the content would almost be easier just modifying the code rather than filling out a teamsite DCR. We have a lot of developers with experience modifying code like this so it woudln't even be an issue of people not being tech-savvy. Any suggestions? Thanks!

One (perhaps 'the') primary reason for templating content is so that you can change the look-and-feel of multiple files by modifying the PT and regenerating all the pages instead of trying to go through each one and changing them by hand.

With that in mind - once you have two pages that share a common structure and look-and-feel - it becomes a candidate for templating. Once you have five, it becomes a better candidate, and once you have ten or more it's pretty much a great candidate.