Oracle iStore is supplied with over 800 Display Templates that present the Customer UI pages. In addition, you can create your own templates for use in the sites. Each template has a specific display purpose, depending upon which element of the customer-facing application it displays. The template categories are known as Applicable To categories in the Site Administration UI.

Layout Templates:

Display Templates have the following features:

Display Name -- This is the template’s name, to be used for your internal business purposes. The template name appears in the Site Administration UI, but cannot be seen in the Customer UI.

Programmatic access name -- This is a unique code used by template processing pages to determine what to do with the template. The template programmatic access name appears in the Site Administration UI, but cannot be seen in the Customer UI.

Keywords -- After you enter them in the system, keywords can be used to search for templates in the Site Administration UI. These keywords cannot be seen by customers.

Description -- This is an internal description, meant for your own business purposes, that provides information about the use of the template. The template description appears in the Site Administration UI, but cannot be seen in the Customer UI.

Applicable To -- The Applicable To designation of a template is a display category that describes its purpose.

Source files -- Each template used in the Customer UI must have a source JSP mapped to it for each site/language mapping for which it will be used. The source JSP determines the content of the page area covered by the template.