Creating page layouts/templates in milo

[Ruchika4]

Hi All,

We are migrating news.adobe.com to milo. Once migrated it'll be used by PR team to author and publish press releases/articles. As they don't have the authoring experience, we have been asked to provide templates where in PR team will just go and update the content and publish the page. These pages will mainly be consisting marquee, text blocks and card metadata (these articles and press releases will be sent to CaaS). Design publishers will be creating the sample pages which will be used by PR team as templates for creating new press releases. We are expecting 3-4 page layouts/templates for all the articles/press releases.

We have been asked to make these templates easily available in sidekick library to PR team. I think we can achieve that by creating layouts using library-container-start and library-container-end blocks something we do in milo to create block patterns. Please let me know if that sounds ok. I also wanted to discuss if any other team has had this use case and if there is a better way of providing non authors the template to easily copy and create a new page.

We did suggested that we create the templates folder in sharepoint and create all template pages there. Then PR team can open the preview link and copy the document source from sidekick and create new page. However team didn't found this solution to be good and felt it'll be better to have it in library.

cc @auniverseaway @rgclayton @narcis-radu @mokimo @overmyheadandbody @dstrong23

[mokimo]

I think I've heard something about the possibility of creating templates using the "new" block library from @dylandepass
That might be an interesting use-case

[Ruchika4]

Thanks for sharing that, @mokimo Do you have some documentation about this "new" block library that I can refer to? cc @dylandepass

[dylandepass]

Hi @Ruchika4, you can find out details on the sidekick library here.

It does support page templates.

[overmyheadandbody]

Would their project live under the adobecom Sharepoint, similar to Bacom or DC? Or would they have their separate project, similar to CC? If the latter is true, it might be that document templates can be added directly when clicking "New" in Sharepoint. As in:

Of course, we don't want to pollute this area for everyone using Milo, so if we'll share the same space, the above idea can be trashed.

[Ruchika4]

We do have separate project for news here like CC.

[overmyheadandbody]

Then I'd say this is the most "Word" way of doing things, have the templates added there directly under the "New" dropdown.

[Ruchika4]

I have suggested that to business. Waiting for a confirmation. Thanks Rares.