Content Template Creator

OrchestraCMS provides a graphical tool called Content Template Creator (CTC) that can be used to create simple, cacheable content templates.  A developer can access the CTC through OrchestraCMS Setup | Content Templates by clicking New.

The content editor page and attributes are defined by selecting the field types, attribute names and field labels.  This will provide the editor page a content author will use when they are creating content using this content template.  At the bottom of the CTC page a panel is provided for the markup that will be rendered by this content template.  The attributes are then placed in the markup to represent where the values supplied by the content author will go within the resulting markup of the content.

The markup panel supports only HTML and CSS.  It does not support Apex or custom logic.  If the content template requires custom logic, leave the markup panel empty and write an Apex class in Salesforce to provide the rendering and custom logic.  Edit the Content Layout record in Salesforce created by CTC and replace the value in the Controller field on record with the name of the Apex class containing the rendering and custom logic.

Once the content template is created using CTC, that content template will need to be added to either a new or existing content type in order to be available to content authors for use in creating content.