Content model templates

Overview

Content model templates allow you to create, manage and install content types or content models across multiple spaces and environments. You can build templates from your existing content models and install them in other spaces and environments, reusing common content structures in different places in your organization.


Templates are versioned containers living at organization-level, where content types can be stored and deployed from. You can add and deploy content types from the web app, or using the Content Management API.

NOTE: The templated content types count towards the usage quota on all spaces.

With templates you can:

  • Define collections of content types that belong together.

  • Deploy these collections to your desired spaces in one take.

  • Include a whole content model into a single template and install that into multiple spaces.

  • Create templates on a component basis, and install the templates you need into spaces to form a composite content model on installation. Multiple templates can be installed into a single space.

Access Content model templates

To access your Content model templates:

  1. Log in to the Contentful web app.

  2. Click the environment switcher.

    Environment swithcer

  3. Click the organization name, and select Organization settings & subscriptions.

  4. Navigate to the "Model templates" tab. The Content model templates overview page is displayed.

    Content model templates: template editor

    From here, you can view and manage existing templates, as well as create new ones.

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