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- Anne-Sophie Duport
- July 3, 2025
Sneak Peek: The New Templates Feature
The major release of eXo Platform 7.0 introduces a new feature that enhances both the administrator and user experience: template creation. Designed to meet the challenges of efficiency, personalization, and visual consistency, this new functionality allows easy creation and use of templates for spaces, sites, pages, and sections. It brings significant time savings for administrators and greater autonomy for users.
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This feature simplifies the management of your digital workplace while boosting adoption and daily employee engagement. In this article, we’ll explore the new possibilities offered by templates and how this feature transforms the administration and content creation experience on eXo Platform.
What are Templates?
Templates in eXo Platform 7.0 allow you to standardize and simplify the creation of sites, spaces, pages, and sections. They are designed to meet various organizational needs, offering pre-configured structures that can be easily customized and deployed. With just a few clicks, you can use existing templates.
The platform offers a dedicated menu for managing them easily. Currently, four types of templates are available, each serving a specific construction or organizational purpose:
- Sites
- Pages
- Sections
- Spaces
Site Templates
Site templates are especially useful for quickly creating internal portals (HR site, intranet, site for internal events, etc.) or public websites. With eXo Platform 7.0, administrators can enable or disable a site template with a single click using options in the administration panel. Managing sites created from templates is also simplified through an intuitive interface available in the admin menu.
An administrator can create and edit a new template directly from the interface. Conversely, a site can be saved as a template from the site management interface. The template includes the site’s structure, pages, navigation menus, and visual theme.
For users, this ensures a seamless experience, with sites that align with the organization’s visual identity and specific needs. All activated site templates are available to any employee creating a new site.
Space Templates
Space templates simplify the creation and use of spaces for information sharing, collaboration, knowledge management, or community building. They allow administrators to define complete structures tailored to the intended purpose of the space: specific applications, permissions, document tree, banner, etc.
Four templates are provided by default:
- Communication
- Community
- Project
- Circle (to interact simply and effectively with other users)
Administrators can also create their own templates independently.
A template defines the space’s properties in detail:
- Steps for creating a new space
- Access and visibility settings
- Page editing, etc.
The administrator can edit the navigation and pages of the template. It can then be applied to selected spaces via the interface. These spaces will then adopt the template’s appearance and properties.
For users, this translates to ready-to-use workspaces with all necessary tools and resources already in place—reducing configuration time and enabling teams to focus on what matters most.
Page Templates
Page templates enable standardized page layouts and content structures. Templates defined by administrators can be reused across the platform. This ensures visual and functional consistency, while also allowing easy customization to meet specific needs.
Templates are grouped into three categories in the admin menu:
- Empty
- Default
- Custom (including those created by the administrator)
New templates can be added via the interface. Conversely, a page can be saved as a template from the page editor. A preview image is generated by default and reflects the layout of the page; this image can be modified by the administrator if needed. The template may include pre-configured content.
For users, page templates make it easy to create pages without starting from scratch. They include elements like headers, footers, banners, content zones, and applications—all pre-configured for optimal use.
When creating a new page, users are presented with available templates, each with a preview.
Section Templates
Sections are blocks of content that can be inserted into different pages. Thanks to templates, these reusable elements (e.g., news, events, image + text, etc.) can be defined once and inserted anywhere on the platform—while maintaining alignment with the organization’s visual identity.
When users add a section, they can choose from customized templates with embedded content and previews, in addition to blank models (column/grid). This mechanism speeds up and simplifies platform construction.
Why Build Your Platform Using Templates?
As we’ve just seen, templates offer many benefits for both administrators and users.
For Administrators:
- Efficiency & Standardization: Templates allow admins to standardize structures and settings, ensuring consistency across the platform.
- Time Savings: Instead of starting from scratch every time, a single template can deploy a project space, thematic site, or new page in seconds—speeding up projects without sacrificing quality.
- Customization: Templates can be tailored to meet specific user needs, offering flexibility while maintaining standard structures.
- Governance: By providing templates, admins guide usage and reduce the risk of disorganized content. It’s an easy way to channel content creation while reassuring users with a clear framework.
- Scalability: As the organization evolves, templates can be updated to include new practices and tools—no need to rebuild everything from scratch.
For Users:
- Improved User Experience: Templates ensure each new space or site follows a consistent logic. Users benefit from a more intuitive, smoother experience with familiar structures and tools.
- Productivity Boost: Users can focus on adding value (content, animation, collaboration) instead of dealing with technical setup or design.
- Easy Creation: Creating a space or page is as simple as selecting a template and adding content—no need to know the ideal structure or juggle components.
- Controlled Autonomy: Users become active participants in building the platform within a defined framework. This guided autonomy encourages initiative while maintaining overall quality.
Conclusion
Templates for sites, spaces, pages, and sections in eXo Platform 7.0 represent a major step forward in flexibility and efficiency. They offer undeniable advantages for administrators—who can standardize and streamline platform management—as well as for users, who enjoy a more intuitive and productive experience. By adopting these templates, organizations can make best practices accessible to all employees, helping to build a more ergonomic, collaborative, and engaging digital workplace.
Want to try this new feature? Log in to the trial platform and explore the available templates.
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