Page templates

Page templates or to be precise backend layouts define the structure of your page. You can configure rows and cols so that the page module looks similar to the frontend output of your site.

Mask is able to extend your page record depending on the currently selected backend layout. This means new fields will be available if you click on edit page. The data defined there can then be used in your fluid templates of your sitepackage. The page record is not available by default in mask elements!

Mask does not create any backend layouts. You have to do it by yourself. There are 2 different methods:

• Go to the list module and create a new Backend Layout record
• Define your Backend Layouts with TSconfig (recommended)

Mask will know about all your database backend layouts. The ones defined by TSconfig will only be found, if they are within the rootline of the pids defined in the extension settings. By default this value is 0, thus all will be found.

Now the procedure is the same as for creating content elements. The only difference is, that you can't create new backend layouts in mask. So you can only edit existing backend layouts. All the meta data like label, key and icon have to be defined by yourself.

After saving your fields, you will find a new tab Content-Fields when editing the page record, which have the according backend layout assigned (or inherits from).

The data you put there can be accessed inside of your template for the backend layout. Again, this is not available in Mask elements by default.