Creation of new layout templates

Hello,
in the portal there are some layout templates available for pages. They are used for the innerpage of default frameworkpage ,too. I like to change the width of first column of the narrowWide 2 columns layout. Found in online Help that you have to use the developer studio or change the *.jsp file directly to get a customized layout (template). I don`t like to change the available jsp files. Best idea would be to have a new jsp file in place on which a new template is based. I found the narrowWide.jsp in the file system where you can change easily the width of colums. But how can I get a new jsp File? Is this only possible by using the developer studio or is there another way to do that?
Thanks for every response.
Regards
Alex

Hello Ganesh,
I like to go closer to your solution.
Ok, my steps would be:
1. Searching the folder where the narrowWide.jsp and the related portalapp.xml is found (usr\sap\...).
2. Make a copy of the narrowWide.jsp, rename it to narrow35Wide65.jsp and save it in the same folder where the narrowWide were found.
3. Edit the new *.jsp file and change the width of narrow column to 35% and wide column to 65% (result should be increasing the narrow column width)
4. Rename the extension of current portalapp.xml in the same folder to portalapp.xml.bak and make a copy of the file in same folder giving the original file name.
5. Editing the portalapp.xml and paste a new component entry based to the narrowWide component entry. Here I have to change the component name and the jsp file name only like in this example, right?
</component>
- <component name="<b>narrow35Wide65</b>">
- <component-config>
<property name="ClassName" value="com.sapportals.portal.pb.layout.PageLayout" />
<property name="ResourceBundleName" value="pagebuilder_nls" />
<property name="SafetyLevel" value="no_safety" />
</component-config>
- <component-profile>
<property name="ComponentType" value="com.sapportals.portal.layout" />
<property name="com.sap.portal.pcm.Title" value="2 Columns (Narrow:Wide)" />
<property name="com.sap.portal.pcm.Description" value="Two-column layout displaying the narrow column on the left" />
<property name="com.sap.portal.reserved.layout.TagLibLayout" value="/SERVICE/com.sap.portal.pagebuilder/taglib/layout.tld" />
<property name="com.sap.portal.reserved.layout.TagLibHtmlb" value="/SERVICE/com.sap.portal.htmlb/taglib/htmlb.tld" />
<property name="com.sap.portal.reserved.layout.TemplateFile" value="<b>narrow35Wide65.jsp</b>" />
<property name="AuthScheme" value="anonymous" />
- <property name="com.sap.portal.reserved.layout.Cont1" value="column1">
<property name="plainDescription" value="Column 1" />
<property name="orientation" value="vertical" />
<property name="designClass" value="prtlPageConL" />
</property>
- <property name="com.sap.portal.reserved.layout.Cont2" value="column2">
<property name="plainDescription" value="Column 2" />
<property name="orientation" value="vertical" />
<property name="designClass" value="prtlPageConR" />
</property>
</component-profile>
All other values can stay same?
6. Is a restart of portal server necessary?
7. It should be able to create a new layout template in PCD based to narrow35Wide65.
Will this work?
Thanks and regards
Alex

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