This applies to www.ndsu.edu sites only.

To choose between the two available templates (NDSU default and VPs template)

1. Edit page properties of the page that should use a different template
2. Click the Extended tab
3. Under the Select template heading, choose a template
4. Save, close and publish as normal
5. Clear branch cache

Template selector in Page properties

Default selection This means the page template is inherited from the parent page

NDSU default template This is the default. If you change your home page to the ? Default selection, your site will use the NDSU default template

VPs template

The template selection will apply to the current page and to all pages hierarchically beneath it once it is published. This means if you select the VPs template in the page properties of a site home page, all pages in the site will use the VPs template unless you "override" other pages by choosing the NDSU default template.

After publishing this change, you should clear branch cache.

This applies to www.ndsu.edu sites only.

To choose between the two available templates (default, 2, 3 and 4)

1. Edit page properties of the page that should use a different template
2. Click the Extended tab
3. Under the Select content area template heading, choose a template
4. Save, close and publish as normal

Content template selector in Page properties

Default

Layout 2

Layout 3

Layout 4

The content template selection will apply to the current page only.

Parts of the template are configurable by the site authors using specially-named or formatted content elements. These special content elements are in the Storage page of your site's Pagetree.

Do not delete the Storage page from your site. Doing so will break those template parts as soon as the delete is published and re-creating a new page called Storage will not repair the template. If this occurs, you should submit a help request to have the site template re-created.

Footer content elements will be inserted in the Storage page by default. Additional content elements may be added to alter the template, as detailed below.

The order of elements within this page is not significant.

Do not change the header field of these elements from the default. If you accidentally change the header, change it back to the default (FOOTER1, FOOTER2).

If you delete one of the special content elements, you can re-create it with the same header label.

The graphic at right shows the Storage folder of the www.ndsu.edu/cms site. Note that there is an added TOPNAV content element, which contains a list of links to use as the top navigation for the site.

The appearance and behavior of these special content elements varies between sites and templates. Note that in most cases, only www.ndsu.edu behavior is explicitly noted here, though it may apply to other sites as well.

To update the footer content of a site,

1. Locate the storage folder in the Pagetree (a page called Storage)
2. Locate the content elements named FOOTER1 and FOOTER2 (for the left and right footers, respectively)
3. Edit and save the content elements as desired
4. Publish contents or send to review
5. Once published, Clear branch cache

The site now uses the updated footer content.

Per University Relations guidelines, footers must contain:
1. Site manager: (link to contact/page)
2. Published by (department/unit name)

3. Department/unit name
4. Phone/Fax: (701) 231-xxxx
5. Physical location
6. Mailing address

Last updated time will be automatically inserted at the beginning of the left footer.

Please limit each footer to 4-5 lines.

To update top navigation links with custom navigation (not all templates are configured with this feature!)

1. Locate the storage folder in the Pagetree (a page called Storage)
2. Locate the content element named TOPNAV.
   If a TOPNAV content element does not exist, create a new Sitemap element with header TOPNAV
3. In the Menu/Sitemap tab, set the Menu type drop-down to Menu of these pages.
4. Under the Startingpoint heading, click the page browser to select pages that should be included in the navigation menu
5. Save as normal, remembering to preview the site in the TYPO3 backend to verify changes are as expected
6. Publish or send to review as normal
7. Once published, Clear Branch Cache

To revert to the default template navigation links, hide or delete the TOPNAV content element in the Storage folder.

TOPNAV format

Link styles, such as internal-link, external-link and pdf-link, do not display in the top navigation.