Page Designer
Before merchants create Page Designer pages in the visual editor in Business Manager, developers must create page types and component types for them to work with.
- Developing for Page Designer
Developers play an important role in implementing Page Designer. Developers work with the ecommerce marketing director to determine the pages, components, layouts, and assets required for the storefront. The developer then creates and uploads custom cartridges that contain reusable page types, component types, and artifacts for the visual editor that help merchants quickly create and implement custom pages. - Create Page and Component Types
To implement page types and component types, you must include a meta definition file and a script file for each page type and component type in a custom cartridge. - Create a Custom Cartridge for Page Designer UI Artifacts
To localize page types and component types, or to display thumbnail images for them in the visual editor, create a custom cartridge that includes resource bundles for localization and thumbnail image files. Upload the custom cartridge to the Business Manager site. - Use Salesforce CMS Content with Page Designer
Use Salesforce CMS to manage all your content in a single repository. Merchants can use the CMS content on a Page Designer page. For example, you develop a component type that displays a headline banner. You can create and manage different options for the content of the headline banner in Salesforce CMS. When merchants add the component type to a page, they select which content to use for the headline banner from Salesforce CMS. - Develop a Custom Attribute Editor
You can create a custom attribute editor for configuring component attributes. Merchants use the custom attribute editor when setting a value for the component attribute in the Business Manager visual editor. - Search Configuration for Page Designer Pages
Configure searching for Page Designer pages and attribute content. - Pages and Components as Content Assets
Pages and components are persisted in the database as content assets, but they aren't displayed in the content asset list in Business Manager and you can't edit them directly from Business Manager. Generally, processes like replication and indexing work the same for pages and components as they do for content assets. But pages and components are different from content assets in some ways. - Page Designer Caching
It’s important to understand how page caching works with Page Designer pages and the cache times for pages, components, and custom attribute editors. - Publish a Page Designer Page
Page Designer pages are rendered from a controller and incorporated into the storefront.
Infocenter Retirement: On June 30, 2023, the Infocenter was retired, and documentation currently hosted on the Infocenter will be published to Salesforce Help, Commerce Cloud Developer Center, and Salesforce B2C Commerce Developer Documentation Resources. For more information, see the release note.