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Christopher Johnson's avatar
Christopher Johnson
Brass Contributor
Jul 24, 2017

Custom page layouts/default content for Modern Pages?

I am trying to come to grips with the best model for creating a template/layout for custom modern pages.   For example, in classic Publishing pages, we could create page layout templates that inclu...
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Daniel Westerdale's avatar
Daniel Westerdale
Iron Contributor
Aug 16, 2018

 

I have the exact same question albeit for custom News Articles. In terms of usability allowing the selection of a custom content  types from the New Menu option:

 

So adding "My Company News Post" to the menu below which not allows both the selection of the custom content type and also the custom layout(s) that are associated with the content type

 

 

 

In my case I have  

 

  1. Provisioned a custom Site Page content type in my tenant's default content type hub site
  2. Ensure that all of my  Hub, Communication and Modern Team Sites have this set as the default CT in their respective site page libraries
  3. Created my ideal CS modern page layout / instance ( also as a provisioning template.) for the above content type

Perhaps, I would create a Flow that either provisions a new instance of a site page based on the provisioning template. Better, still this Flow could trigger when a new site page is added and apply the above poisoning template to that page, as long as it is based on my custom content type.  However, looks a bit over engineering to me ( and probably my client! ). Be interested in anyone's thoughts.

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