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SharePoint Page Template - Title issue with prefilled values
Hi all,
we noticed a change in the creation of SP Pages with a custom template.
We have a template e.g. "Custom News". In the past the page with the template was created and the title was empty (Add title).
Now the title is already prefilled with "Custom News". This also leads to issues while creating news.
The user adds directly some text -> Draft auto saved -> URL generated
This results in news like:
"Custom News (1).aspx"
"Custom News (2).aspx"
...
Is this really by design? Is it a bug? Can we avoid that behaviour? Clearing the Title in the template is not an option and is also not working.
We are also experiencing this issue, as are a number of people on this thread: When we create a site page in SharePoint it shows the default name - Microsoft Community
The Title and Name fields are pre-populating with the Title and Name of the Template, and so the page URLs are ending up as described above.
juyaaMicrosoft
Stefan, thanks so much for reporting this. When you describe 'user adds directly some text -> Draft auto-saved/URL generated' are you referring to
1) the user opening a custom template
2) the user making updates to the banner webpart or the page title
2) the updates made/new title being auto-saved
3) the URL does NOT show the updates but instead takes the original template title as URL (in your case 'Custom News'?
I would appreciate your feedback with more details and we will investigate further. Appreciate your help with this.Hi juyaa
seems the behaviour changed? It is now working as expected
Thanks Nadine for the link - thats the same issue.
juyaais there any update / investigation ongoing on that topic?
It is like a change in the template behavior might be causing the issue. The pre-filled title could be due to a recent update or a default setting applied to the template. You might want to check the template settings in SharePoint to see if there's an option to clear the default title or modify the template so it leaves the title field empty. Alternatively, a small workaround could be to update the template to avoid conflicts when creating news.
Hi,
We experienced the same issue and, as usual, didn't receive much information from Microsoft. The fix that worked for me was to edit the page template and then save it.
