Edit Page: Template

Initially displays the name of the page template on which the page is based. If the page does not currently have a template applied, <None> is displayed.

Select a new template for the page using the drop-down list.

Allows you to identify where content on the page should be located after the new template has been applied. Since the template you're applying most likely has a different layout than the current page, you must identify where content should be located on the page in the context of the new template. Region Mapping is displayed only when:

• You are choosing a template for a page that 1) has never had a template applied, and 2) contains content.
• One or more users customized the page for their own use by adding content. As the page designer, you must decide where the content should be located not only for the base page, but for every single customization of the page.
• You are choosing a new template for a page that 1) already has a template applied 2) contains portlets or items that were added to the base page after the original template was applied.

Keep in mind that any items or portlets that were inherently part of the original template will not appear on the page once the new template has been applied. For example, a page is initially based on Template A, which contains a navigation bar and four portlets. When Template B is applied, the page inherits the content dictated by template B: two portlets and a different navigation bar. You will not have an opportunity to map the four portlets and navigation bar that used to appear on the page, because those belonged to Template A, not to the page.

Note: If you wanted to carry these portlets forward, however, you could detach the template (Template A) from the page. The page retains all the elements of the template but is no longer attached to it, i.e., the page now owns those elements. Then you could apply Template B. This scenario isn't terribly likely, however; in most cases, you're choosing a new template because you want the page to adhere to a standard look and feel, not because you're trying to create a hybrid of two templates.

Lists only those regions in the template that:

• Allow content to be added. If the Enable Pages To Include Content In This Region checkbox was de-selected, the region is not eligible to have content moved into it and thus is not displayed.
• Match the type (portlet or item) of the region named to the left. If no region of the appropriate type exists in the selected template, select the <Discard Content> option.

  The <Discard Content> option is useful when assigning a template to a page that already has some template-like elements on it, such as a banner. For example, if the page has content in the banner region, you may not want to move the old banner content over to the new template's banner region. Instead, you may opt to simply discard that content.

  All items and portlets on the page must have a home in the new template. So, if your page contains an item but you chose a new template that does not have a region allocated to items, you must either discard that item or choose a different template.