Create a Flex Layout page

(Optional) Create a headline and introduction for the page

If you're creating a Flex Layout - Main Landing Page, then you may want to skip this step. Typically those pages do not have headlines and introductions on them, but it depends on your needs.

If you're creating a Flex Layout - Internal Page, we recommend creating a headline and introduction for the page. Below are the steps for doing so: 

1. In the 020 section, navigate to the folder where the components for the Anchor Links page will reside.
2. Create a new component and complete the following fields:
   1. Name: enter a name for the component here
   2. Schema: select General Content
   3. Title: enter the headline for your page here. 
   4. Content: enter the introductory text that will go at the top of your page. This is a rich-text field, so you can add other elements like images, links, etc.
3. Save and Close the component.

Create the components

Flex Layout pages are very flexible in how they are built, so which components you need to build will vary based on what you want the final page to look like.

No matter what you build, you'll need to build Flex Row Configuration components, as those are the foundation for all Flex Layout pages. 

Other component types that you may wish to include, along with possible component templates, are shown in the table below.

Create each component that will appear on your page.

Create the Flex Layout page

1. In the 050 section, navigate to (or create) the structure group where the Flex Layout page will reside.
2. Create a new page.
3. Fill in the Name, File Name, Page Display Name, Dublin Core Title, and Dublin Core Description fields.
4. For the Page Template field, uncheck "Inherit from Parent." Then, in the drop-down menu for the field, select one of the following:
   1. Flex Layout - Main Landing Page: this will create a page without a left navigation
   2. Flex Layout - Internal Page: this will create a page with a left navigation
5. Click the Design tab.
6. Click the Add button:
   1. If you created a headline and introduction component in in step 1, navigate to and select it, apply the Page Introduction component template, and insert it into the page.
   2. Navigate to the components you created in step 2, select them, apply the appropriate component template to all, and insert them into the page.
7. Close the Insert Component Presentation pop-up window.
8. Re-order your components as needed so that your Flex Row Configuration components come before the components used within the Flex Row. See the page on Flex Row Configuration components if you need more information on how to organize the components.
9. Save and Close your page.

Publish the page

When you've completed all the steps above, then all you need to do next is publish your page.

Navigate to the page you built in step 3, right-click on it and select Publishing > Publish.

Select the site you wish to publish to and click Publish. This will send the page to the publishing queue. 

We also recommend republishing the navigation at this point, so it picks up the new page.