In AEM 6.2, how do you create a static page template on a site that already has editable page templates?

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I'm having trouble creating a static page template on our site that already has editable pages. I'm not sure if I'm just creating the template wrong, missing a required call, or if config templates exist that AEM doesn't check for templates in apps.

I have my static template defined in apps, where this documentation says to define a static template

apps/<site-name>/templates/<template-name>

and my editable templates are in

content/conf/<site-name>/settings/wcm/templates

I've tried adding my static template to the conf templates directory, and it then shows up as an option when creating a new page, but the properties tab during page creation is empty and the create button is grayed out.

Here is my apps static template .content.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jcr:root xmlns:sling="http://sling.apache.org/jcr/sling/1.0" xmlns:cq="http://www.day.com/jcr/cq/1.0" xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0" xmlns:mix="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/mix/1.0" xmlns:nt="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/nt/1.0"
          jcr:description="Bio Page"
          jcr:mixinTypes="[mix:lockable]"
          jcr:primaryType="cq:Template"
          jcr:title="Bio Page"
          allowedPaths="[/content(/.*)?]"
          ranking="{Long}3">
    <jcr:content
            cq:designPath="/etc/designs/<site>"
            jcr:primaryType="cq:PageContent"
            sling:resourceType="<site>/components/structure/static-page/bio"
            cq:template="/apps/<site>/templates/bio-page"> 
    </jcr:content>
</jcr:root>

Its not clear, what you want fixed. Do you want your static template working under /apps (the way pre 6.2 templates used to work) or you want it to be a configurable template using template editor? — Ameesh Trikha

Ameesh Trikha Ameesh Trikha · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-01T19:11:52

Your static template not working when defined under /apps/<site>/templates, in your above XML for template definition the jcr:content shouldn't have property cq:template. The property cq:template exists in the pages created using the templates.

Where are you trying to create the page using your template, the template thou defines that allowed path as /content and any hierarchy below it but this may be limited/restricted by the properties allowedChildren and allowedParents on other templates in your hierarchy. Try creating a page directly under /content where no other limitation will apply. Are you able to create page then?

Moving your template under /conf/<site-name>/settings/wcm/templates needs you to associate structure to it where in you define sling:resourceType="<site>/components/structure/static-page/bio", this will be responsible for the defined properties that you see in the create page wizard. If reused/copy pasted the template from /apps to /conf then you may be missing this structure, adding which will fix the issue

In AEM 6.2, how do you create a static page template on a site that already has editable page templates?

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