Accepted, Not Yet Planned

Update: Though this is a great idea, this specific request is currently not planned based on our program planning and prioritization of all Tridion Sites ideas for early 2018. We may revisit this and other great ideas based on more information and additional votes.

Rename XPM Page Types and Content Types into Prototypes

The concept of Page Types from a Content Modeling perspective is often confused with the Experience Manager Page Types.

Clients often believe that XPM requires creation of as many Page Prototypes as the Page Types identified in the Content modeling process. This may be misleading cause the 2 don't always match.

Example: we don't want to create a Page Prototype for the Home Page. Editors will not create multiple Home Pages on their websites.

Page Prototypes should be created only for those pages that are commonly re-created by editors and for this reason they are usually a subset of the Page Types.

Different logic applies for Content Types. In this case we probably want to create a Content Prototype for each identified Content Type. However for consistency it would be nice to call "Prototypes" both pages and components.

Luca Agostinelli

  • I agree with the distinction betwen "page types" the concept and "Page Types" the feature. Though the specific term Prototype seems a bit technical to me. Outside of a CMS context, people seems to consider such starting content and pages as:

    • Templates
    • Examples
    • References / Instance / Starter / "Toolkit" or similar

    It's similar Office documents where the PowerPoint or Word theme/template (pptx or docxt) is akin to CMS Templates. Even though people might ALSO refer to a starting PowerPoint Deck or Word document as a "template."