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Page layouts and templates provide a format that can be utilized to structure your page.

Page Layouts Using Templates

Templates allow the user to format pages into preexisting layouts without needing to know HTML.

How to set up a template

There are two steps to utilize templates when creating pages in the Evergreen HelpWiki

Step One: Copy and paste template syntax.

Navigate from the home page to the category Web Publishing and click Wiki Admin
From the Wiki Admin catagory, click on the subcategory Page Layouts
Select the page that utilizes the template you want to use for your page
From the template page navigate to the ... icon and select edit source
Highlight the syntax in the editing box included in the curly brackets

Links to templates you can use

Where to click to find the Edit Source button

Copy and paste the text in red to utilize templates in your page

Step Two: Utilize the template to format your page

Navigate back to your page and select Edit Source
Paste the syntax you copied from the template example page into the editing box for your page
Follow the instructions included in the syntax in order to fill in the template with your content

You can contact Academic technologies if you need any help creating a MediaWiki page

Editing pages built using templates

Pages using layout template cannot be edited via visual editor. To enable Visual Editor editing, you'll want to convert your page from template format to HTML using the subst command.

input subst: right before the start of the template and save the page.
The template syntax will be replaced by the html layout tags

Syntax to flatten TwoColumn template would look like

{{subst:TwoColumn ...
}}

When To Use a Template

Below is the syntax for the basic template that you can copy and paste into your page.

__NOTOC__
{{Basic
|lead=
Lead text / brief overview of the page content. 
|content=
===Page Content===
====Task heading (optional)====
#
#
#
#
}}

The basic template can be utilized on pages that you want to keep relativly unformatted
The template includes formatting for imputing a block of content but does not include formatting for adding a sidebar or more than one section for content.
If you want to add additional styling to the page see Help:Templates- MediaWiki or Help:Magic words - Media Wiki
Link to the basic layout page/example

A page that uses the Basic template is the the main Evergreen helpwiki landing page

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 ====When To Use a Template====
-{{3colbox
-|Title1='''Basic'''
-|Content1=
 '''Below is the syntax for the basic template that you can copy and paste into your page.'''
 <pre>
@@ Line 69: / Line 67: @@
 |Title2='''Two Column/Sidebar'''
-|Content2=
 '''Below is the syntax for the TwoColumn or Sidebar template that you can copy and paste into your page.'''
 <pre>
@@ Line 94: / Line 92: @@
 [[File:Screen Shot 2017-10-03 at 1.44.18 PM.png|thumbnail|'''A page that uses the Two Column or Sidebar template is the I forgot my Username or Password Page''']]
 |Title3='''Landing'''
-|Content3=
 '''Below is the syntax for the landing page template that you can copy and paste into your page.'''
 <pre>
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 *You can Include the 3 Box or 2 Box template to add further structure to your landing page
 [[File:Screen Shot 2017-10-03 at 1.41.07 PM.png|thumbnail|'''A page that uses the Landing template is the Accessibility Help Page''']]
-}}
 ===More About Page Layouts===
 The default Evergreen MediaWiki skin (Chameleon) is a bootstrap-based skin.