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title: Flexible Template
tags: Content Management System
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# Flexible Template

## Resources

### CMS Instructions

#### Create Flexible Template Content

Site administrators and Content Editors can create Flexible Template content leveraging the Drupal Admin interface as follows:

**Step 1:** Navigate to the **Content** menu and click **Add content** or Navigate to **Content** -> **Add content** -> **Flexible Template** to create a new content:


**Step 2** : Enter a new **Title** for the Flexible Template content. Enter: “My Page”. The **Published** checkbox should not be checked. Content pages should be created unpublished by default.


We will review three important configuration settings, associated with the Flexible Template - **Menu Settings**, **Meta Tags** and **XML Sitemap**.

**Step 3:** Expand the **Menu Settings** item and check the **Provide a menu link** check box to enable the remaining menu configuration items.


Optional **Menu Settings** configuration entries include:
- **Provide a menu link** - Checkbox.
- **Menu Link Title** - Character.
- **Description** - Character. Detailed description of menu link.
- **Parent Link** - Menu links with lower weights are displayed before links with higher weights.
- **Weight**

**Note:** Pathauto is configured for Flexible template content so that page paths are automatically generated. For pages that may link from multiple locations the content editor will be responsible for placing the content in a menu and then creating the correct link from any other locations needed.

**Step 4:** Select **Secondary navigation** from the **Parent link** drop-down.


The “My Page” flexible template can now be invoked from a menu link associated with the **Secondary Navigation** Parent link.

**Step 5:** Review **Meta Tags** configuration settings. Please see more about configuring meta tags [here](/RT0yYqHgRem1F5DpQ--rDg#Configuring-Meta-Tags).

**Step 6:** Review the **XML Sitemap**. Please see more about configuring the XML Sitemap [here](/IRfa_-aEQt-Nxz8CdJJYfw#Configuring-XML-Sitemap).

**Step 7:** Save the page.


Saving the page enables the Layout tab where we can leverage Layout Builder to pull components in and place them on the page.


Layout builder is configured to allow for content editor to add all available components.

**Step 8:** Navigate to the **Layout** tab to invoke Layout builder which supports the placing of components on the page.

**Step 9:** Click **Add block** to choose components to be placed on the page.


**Step 10:** Click **Create custom block** to choose components to be placed on the page.


:::info
**Note:** Below we illustrate how to add a Footnote content block. Other content blocks may be added in the same way.
:::

**Step 11:** Click **Footnote**.


**Step 12:** Enter “Test Footnote” as the “Title” and “Body” of footnote. Select **Add block** to save the component.


**Step 13:** Save the layout.


**Step 14:** View unpublished page has a background color of Pink.


**Step 15:** On the **Edit** tab, click the **Publish** checkmark and view the published page with a background color of Green.