This article introduces pages and page templates, including the sitemap and page variants.
Note: For a comprehensive list of page templates and best practice advise for supported row types, see our pages and supported rows article.
What are pages?
Pages define the behavior and appearance of your apps. Every screen that users navigate to within your apps exists as a page in Presentation Manager. Whether you're looking at the Homepage, an Item detail page, or a Category page, it's essential to consider the design and use cases before configuring the display of your content.
Add rows to page regions (Header, Body, and Footer), easily re-order, duplicate or remove rows to suit your use case, e.g., sporting events or entertainment. Target entire pages and rows to specific end-users, with page and row variant parameters. These include device type, language, segmentation tags, date, and time of day.
Pages have different purposes, meaning that the setup process for each differs slightly in Presentation Manager. For example, the Homepage typically displays a wide range of assets that focus primarily on imagery. In contrast, an item detail page provides further supporting information on the title, such as a description or cast introductions, and can include the option to bookmark and rate the content.
Visit the Page templates section to see front-end examples.
Page templates
Compatibility note: From AXIS Presentation Manager 10.0 and Deltatre Apps version 1.0 onwards, a wider range of row/page combinations are supported. Visit our Pages and supported rows article for our recommended implementation for an optimized user experience.
Once selected, the page template in use displays in the header.
To access the list of available page templates, navigate to the sitemap, and select the 
button.
System and Standard pages
There are two types of page template: System and Standard. When choosing a template for a new page, switch between the two in the top right-hand corner, as shown above.
Standard pages are dynamic and editorially curated, working 1:1. This ensures the relevant content is featured on the appropriate page template, e.g., Category, Featured list, or Homepage.
System pages work as 1:many. Modifying a system page affects all pages using it as a template. E.g., making changes to an Item Detail page will change the appearance of all pages based on this template - Show, Movie, Program, Episode, and so on. System pages are not dynamic.
For a comprehensive list of page templates and the recommended row types guidance, read our detailed article on this subject.
Note: System pages are typically connected to important business processes (such as account creation). For this reason, we strongly advise against modifying them.
What is the sitemap?
The sitemap is an index of all existing pages within Presentation Manager. Switch to another page or add a new page by selecting the Sitemap tab on the left.
Learn more about navigating the sitemap and how to choose or create a page for your content.
Page variants
Before you add content to a page, it's essential to understand what page variants are and how they work. Page variants provide a granular level of control over pages, allowing you to create different versions of the same page by applying filters such as device type, user group, segmentation tags, dates, or time of day.
Read our article to learn more about page variants, not to be confused with the language variants found under the Metadata side tab.
Rows
Rows are the building blocks for your pages. The first step when creating a new page is adding the rows that will present your assets in your apps, displaying predefined lists of content to your audience.
Each row in the body of a page represents a row in the app. These rows show lists of content that may be displayed differently depending on the row type. Choose from the selection of available row types to present text and imagery in the way that best suits your use case.
For more information, see our rows article.
Setting up a page
To view, create or edit pages, navigate to the DISPLAY menu, then select Pages. The Content tab on the left-hand side is selected automatically.
Page content is divided into regions - header, body, and footer. Various row types are available within each region, depending on the page template you select.
Select rows to insert them into your page, and then link to predefined lists of content, text, images, or externally driven web views. You also have the option to add and configure page variants and row variants.
Below is an example of a home page setup within Presentation Manager.
The page name, status, template, internal page ID, and last modified information are found at the top of the page. From AXIS 10.0 onwards, the header contains the name of the selected variant when in the Content side tab.
Compatibility notes: From AXIS Presentation Manager 10.0 onwards, the Call-to-action functions are as follows. They work in a consistent way across Presentation Manager.
To Save or Publish
The following buttons are available to save, or save and publish:
Save X (where X is the name of the side tab currently open) - this saves the content of the currently open side tab, but does not publish it. It is available when any changes have been made to the content of that side tab.
Note: In Pages, this button is entitled Save Variants. It saves all the variants in the Content side tab.
Save and Publish - any new changes across the entire object are saved, and the whole object is published to make it visible to your end-users to view and interact with. It is available when there are any saved or unsaved changes, which have not been published, in the content of any of the side tabs.
To Unpublish, Archive or Delete
Within the More drop down list are further options:
Unpublish - this removes the object from publication, so your end-users can no longer view and interact with it, and puts it back into a status of Draft.
Archive - this puts the object into a status of Archived, which prevents any further use, although it can still be viewed. Note that if this is actioned while an object is in a status of Live, it is automatically unpublished.
Delete - this completely removes the object from the system. It is only available in Pages.
Note: To check the success of selecting any of these options, the header includes the updated status of the object. See The header and status for details of the resulting status after taking any action, and what the header looks like in AXIS Presentation Manager 10.0.
Need to find out more? Browse our related articles section below or use the links on the left. Otherwise, jump straight into selecting or creating your new page.
Note: You can also add notes to the pages section, see our guide on how to use notes.