Content model and structured data

Editors in Gjensidige are used to many different page types, such as 30-70, 10-90 or Theme. The page you chose decided what modules you were allowed to use. 

In XP on Builders Platform, you may choose between only two different page types: The article page and the General page. You decide what page to use depending on whether the main user task involves mainly navigation or mainly reading. 

Page: Article

Choose this page when creating content that helps the user learn more about a topic. In other words, it should be used for articles or other reading tasks.

It differs from Page: General by containing its very own article parts: Text sections, Quotes and Images. They allow you to write long-form text content in combination with other parts that trigger action or elaborate on your text.

Page: General

If you're not creating content for reading, you'll be using the General page. Offering all parts except for the three article parts, it's got everything you need to trigger actions, create an overview or give navigational options.

Changing page types

Sometimes, you might want to change the page type – say from Page: Article to Page: General. This may be done by admins in Data Toolbox:

1. From the XP start page, open Data Toolbox and then Data Tree
2. Select the "com.enonic.cms.default" repository and then the "Draft" branch
3. Select the "[root]" node, the "content" node and then the node with the same name as your site
4. Find the page you wish to change, click its "info" icon, and select "Display properties". If you wish to change a subpage, click the pages that precede it in the URL, for instance /bedrift and then /forsikring to display the subpages.
5. Click the pencil icon next to "type", and edit the string "theme:page-article" to "theme:page-general" or vice versa

At the very core of the editor experience is the various content types:

• FAQs and FAQ groups
• Products, product groups and features
• Navigation, toplevels, sublevels and footer navigation groups
• Videos
• Links
• Applications
• Charts
• Categories
• Shortcuts
• Documents
• System messages

These are collections of pre-made data fetched by parts, so that you may create certain contents only once, maintain it in one place, use it on several pages and tailor the context around it on each page.

Typically, product information is carefully written in collaboration with specialists, and we tend to give the same information on several pages. Therefore, we create and maintain the basic product information in one place, and fetch these ready-made texts in the parts.

Products are built with three content types:

• Product
• Product Group
• Product Feature

To display them on our websites, we use the following parts:

• Product Action List
• Product Cards
• Product Buttons
• Product Overview
• Product Group Table

The menu and footer are so-called global elements that exist across the entire site as a navigation tool for the users.

In our content model, they are created with four content types: Navigation, Toplevels, Sublevels and Footer navigation groups.

We use the content type system messages to add a global or local message to our users, typically when some of our solutions are failing or unstable. There are three different variants depending on your message:

• Information
• Warning (default)
• Error

Parts are the actual building blocks that you use to create valuable content on the page. 

You always start with a clean slate, combining new and pre-made content, such as FAQs, Products or links.