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How to create a new page from template page ?

Hi All ,

I am currently new to perch .

I have been implementing perch for the first time and would like to know the following :

How do i create a page from a template page - (This includes renaming the physical name of the page & not the title ) .

Thanks & Regards ,

Titus Saju

Titus Saju

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  • 3 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

In Perch we call those page templates Master Pages: https://docs.grabaperch.com/perch/pages-and-nav/pages/master-pages/

Yes , exactly .

But it doesn't show where (Physically the file is being generated .) . I would need to know where the new page is being created on the server and its naming convention used in default . Is it possible that the user gets to change that convention ?

Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

The page is created based on the subpage folder setting of the parent page.

You can also move it after creating it by changing the path a checking the box to move the page.

Ok that solves one issue .

Let me explain a bit more about my other issue .

We are basically an IT solutions provider company . So the amount of solutions we provide change / increase per month .

Let us say I have created a master page called "Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery" . - I would be using the same page design for all other solution pages as well .

But I need my navbar to detect the pages if any new pages are added and index them accordingly in the dropdown of Solutions tab .

As of now I am able to use the BC&DR page as template , which is absolutely fine , but the other pages being mentioned in the navbar is one issue that I am facing

One More issue down the line , actually I got the above one solved out .

I Created a new subpage using the method mentioned , but when I tried to access the page I'm getting an error

HTTP error 500

Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support