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Creating Containers

Containers are pages that can be used to store and edit data on the web page. It is possible to use the data through developer APIs, the fetch data functionality as well as dynamic content page properties. Containers are not displayed in View mode and can therefore only be edited in Edit mode. Containers appear dimmed in the tree structure.

Container pages:

have no preview
are not searchable, since they are filtered from page searches
do not have a target frame or simple address
are not visible in menus
cannot be linked to
cannot be compared visually or side by side

To create a container in Edit mode, create a new page and select to base it on the container page type. You can then add sub-pages to be used, for example, in a listing.

The page types to be used for containers are created in Admin mode, see Administrator’s Manual.