An authoring template is used to define the default authoring settings for site areas and content items. This includes the design of the authoring form, what fields and elements appear on the authoring form, and default values for fields and elements. You must create authoring templates before ...

When working with authoring templates you define settings for the authoring template itself, as well as defining default settings for the items created using the authoring template.

h2 Authoring Templatesh2 The River Bend Web Site contains four authoring templates. General News Products Locations If the fields in Locations, News and Products are the similar, you could create only one for them and reuse templates between the site areas. h3 a name"general" ...