Chapter 13. Working with Web Publisher Template Files

Once you have created your custom object type and included it as an acceptable object type in your custom lifecycle, you are all set to go ahead and create a Template for the object type. Recall our earlier discussions about templates and object types: object types are the definitions for objects with information such as creator of object, last modified time, title, subject, description, and some custom attributes.

Whenever an object is created from a particular object type, it inherits all its attributes and allows users to assign specific values for each attribute. An object type simply serves as a template for all real-time objects created from it. However, this covers just the metadata or properties for objects. What about the actual content data of such objects (web pages), such as the associated images, the paragraphs/text abstracts, associated hyperlinks and other pieces of information that can be classified as actual content that is seen on the website and not metadata? This is where Web Publisher Templates (or loosely speaking UI forms) step in.