Reg: Custom Page Layouts and Custom iView Templates

Dear Gurus,
Can you please guide me with the Business Scenarios on when will we be creating Custom page layout?
Any links which helps is creating them.
Thanks & Regards,
Pramod

Hi Pramod,
The only purpose of a page layout is to layout the iviews in a page according to your needs. It could be for WPC or regular portal pages as well. For this I can't think of any other business scenario.
However, a template in general is like a blue print.
You can create an iview template, layout template or a page template by setting the property "Is a Template" to YES for any iview, layout or page.
So, in general:
If the standard delivered components do not serve our purposes. we create custom components and deploy them onto portal as .par applications.
Then from the .par deployed onto the portal,
1. We can directly create an iview (or) create an iview template first and then create iviews using the template.
2. We can directly create a layout (or) create a layout template first and then create layouts using the template.
If you create something (iview/page/layout) as a template, then it could be used as a blue print to create similar objects in the future.
Templates are generally created for ease of use and to maintain standards in the future.
Thanks,
Shanti

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I've added some additional web part zones to a new table in a custom page layout but when I deploy the page layout and apply it to an existing page, if I add a CEWP to the new zones the ribbon doesn't respond and I can only modify the CEWP if I move it to
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This depends on the IView properties, so open IView properties in property editor and play around with
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I am trying to create custom page layouts using Design Manager and then editing the html file using a text editor.
I have created a content type (inherited from Page content type) and used this content type for my page layout. I used the snippet manager to add relevant webpart zones and snippets I needed and published the page layout. Under status it shows conversion
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I have seen a similar problem on-prem when a client had distributed cache misconfigured, but as your problem is with SPO, I doubt that is the problem.
Try creating another page layout but keep its associated content type untouched. Try adding snippets and such, publish and see what happens. If that works, then there must be something wrong with your custom content type.
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Hi All,
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thanks for posting your query, The master page can't be copied in designer and pasted into the new site collection. A better approach would be to bundle it into a feature and deploy it to the farm where it can't be activated and used.
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I hope this is helpful to you, mark it as Helpful.
If this works, Please mark it as Answered.
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Hi all,
I have created some customs page layouts, and they are working fine in the Portal (EP 6.0 SP2).
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Thank you very much in advanced and regards
Stella
Exception ID:06:36_15/03/06_0043
com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentException: Error in service call of Portal Component
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        at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.dispatchRequest(PortalRequestManager.java:138)
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I've been able to solve my problem.
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using System.Configuration;
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Hi,
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https://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/03/page/2/
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<tr>
<td>
<SharePoint:CalculatedField ID="CalculatedDateField" FieldName="guid" runat="server" />
</td>
</tr>
</PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel>
In the edit mode, the date is getting shown, and I am able to select a date. When the page is published, the entered date is not getting displayed.
How to fix this?
Thanks

Hi,
I tried to reproduce this issue like this:
1. Create a DateTime site column “MyDateTimeCol01”;
2. Create a Calculated site column “MyCalculated03” with formula “=TEXT(MyDateTimeCol01,"MMMM dd, yyyy")”;
3. Create a Page Layout content type contains the two site columns above;
4. Create a Page Layout with the Page Layout content type, the source code of this page layout as below:
<asp:Content ContentPlaceholderID="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
<PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel runat=server id="EditModePanel1" PageDisplayMode="Edit">
<SharePointWebControls:DateTimeField FieldName="9492c1ff-851f-4d1c-bcbf-5637b69ebd63" runat="server"> </SharePointWebControls:DateTimeField>
</PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel>
<br/>
<PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel runat=server id="EditModePanel2" PageDisplayMode="Display">
date time text:
<br/>
<SharePointWebControls:CalculatedField FieldName="9c00c4dc-6a53-4abd-9fa4-6b4dd266c898" runat="server"></SharePointWebControls:CalculatedField>
</PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel>
</asp:Content>
5. After that, create a publishing page with this custom page layout:
In Edit mode:
In Display mode:
I suggest you follow the steps above to make another test to see if the issue persists.
Thanks
Patrick Liang
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