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Making changes to the template

Let’s try to change a few things in the template record, "ROOT". Edit the template "Introduction Package" and select the tab "Includes". In section "Include basis template" click on the Icon before "ROOT" and select edit.

Now you can edit the "ROOT" template in place:

For standard templates the "Constants" field is often the place to change values. Constants define things that are used in many places in templates, like the name of the default template or the page where your news are coming from. Constants can then be used in the "Setup" field. For example if you have a constant definition like menu.top.pages = 28 you can later use it in the setup as {$menu.top.pages} and it will be substituted automatically with the value (28 in this case). So one change to a constant may mean many changes in different places in the final TypoScript configuration code of the template.

In our case, let's add the feedback page to the top right menu.

Just add the page "Feedback" (id 2) to the list of pages in the top right menu.

After saving the template record, click "Clear all cache" in the "Admin Functions" menu:

Always do that if you edit template records directly .

The result is:

You can play with other values as well!

The constant editor:

The better way to handle these changes is to use the Template module in the "Constant Editor" view:

With the constant editor you can edited most constants in a comfortable way. They have additional descriptions telling you what they do. Every constant is in a certain category. You can switch the categories with the "Category" select box on top.

To repeat the change we did earlier (adding the Feedback page to the top right menu) choose "Navigation Menus" from the category menu and edit the constant:

Now go and take a look around at what is available, play with the options and come back when you've had enough.