Creating content with sample web content template items

To illustrate how page templates, web content viewers, and content associations work together, IBM® Web Content Manager provides sample web content. The sample content includes examples of web content template pages and predefined portlets that you can add to pages to render content.

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In addition to examining how these rendering pieces are defined, you can also explore the web content libraries containing the sample content.

Notes:
  • For a typical installation using the Full option, the sample web content template items are deployed by default. However, if you installed the portal using the Base options, you can add the items after installation. For more detailed information, read Adding templating sample content to a base installation.
  • If you want to customize the sample web content that IBM WebSphere® Portal provides, create copies of the sample web content libraries and customize those copies.
  • Adding sample content with the site toolbar
    The sample content provided with the portal includes four preconfigured web content viewer portlets that you can add to a page from the site toolbar. The viewers are configured with the Create content (based on selection) setting so that adding the viewers to a page automatically creates content items on the page. The viewers are available in the site toolbar in the Web Content category of the Content tab.
  • Creating content with the Articles template page
    The sample content that is provided with IBM Web Content Manager includes a web content template page that is called Articles. This template page demonstrates how you can build pages with predefined content.
  • CSS styles used by the sample web content template items
    The markup that is generated by the sample web content template items is primarily controlled by presentation templates that are stored in the Web Content Templates library. These templates rely on the availability of several CSS class definitions in the wp_oob_sample_styles theme module.
  • Adding the sample web content libraries in the authoring portlet
    The templating sample content provided with IBM WebSphere Portal is delivered in two web content libraries: Template Page Content and Web Content Templates. You can use these libraries and their content as a starting point for working with web content page templates and developing your own templates.
  • Parent topic: Getting started with delivering web content on a portal page