Step by step

1. Open Page arrangements from the Website menu

   In the left-hand navigation column, find the Website group and select Page arrangements. This item sits in the Manages (setup) section at the top of the office rather than in the day-to-day Does menu.

2. Wait for the editor screen to load

   The CMS routes you to the Page arrangements view wrapped in the standard office shell, so the header, navigation column, and account menu all stay in place while the page loads.

3. Let the screen read your session and pages

   The screen confirms who you are and which organisation is selected, then loads that organisation's name, number, and all its pages sorted by navigation order. If no organisation is selected you will see a prompt to choose one and nothing else will appear.

4. Check that the arrangement form is shown

   If your organisation has at least one page, the arrangement form appears with every page listed and all eight available templates ready to choose from. If no pages exist yet, you will see a link to create your first page instead — do that first, then come back.

5. Pick a page and choose an arrangement

   Use the Page selector to choose which page to work on. Then open the Arrangement selector and pick a template. The eight templates span five design families: rounded, square, frame, triangle, and plate. As soon as you select one, its description, suitability note, and the ordered list of section names it contains appear below the selectors so you can see exactly what you will get.

6. Decide whether to add to or replace existing sections

   If the page you chose already has sections, a pair of options appears: Add the arrangement after what is there, or Replace what is there. Adding keeps your current sections and places the new ones after them; replacing discards the current sections entirely. For an empty page this choice is hidden and replace is used automatically.

7. Click Apply the arrangement

   Press the Apply the arrangement button to submit your choices. The button is disabled and its label changes to Applying while the work is in progress, so wait for it to finish before doing anything else.

8. Let the server verify your access and read the form

   The server re-checks your session independently — your organisation cannot be changed by anything in the form. It reads the page, template, and mode you chose, and stops with an error message if either the page or the template is missing.

9. Server applies the template and writes the page

   The system confirms the page belongs to your organisation and checks that your role is lodge-admin, secretary, or website-editor, refusing if it is not. It then builds the template's blocks pre-filled with your organisation's name and number, checks every block type is valid, and saves the updated sections to your page. In replace mode existing sections are removed first; in append mode they are kept and the new blocks follow them.

10. Audit record is written automatically

    Once the page is saved, the system records an audit event noting which template was applied, to which page, the mode used, and how many existing sections were replaced if any. You do not need to do anything for this to happen.

11. Read the confirmation and open the page to edit

    The form refreshes and shows a notice confirming the page title and the total number of sections it now has. Open the page from there to edit content, reorder sections, or remove any you do not need. No section is locked to the template after this point.

What happens next

Your chosen page now contains the full set of sections defined by the template, each one pre-filled with your organisation's own name and number. The sections are ordinary editable blocks from this point on — nothing ties them to the template, so you can change any field, move sections up or down, or delete sections you do not want without affecting anything else.

An audit event is stored recording the template name, the page it was applied to, and the mode used. If any existing sections were replaced, the count of those replaced sections is also recorded.

Good to know

You can apply an arrangement to the same page more than once. Choosing append each time layers new sections after the existing ones, which is useful for building up a page in stages. Choosing replace each time gives you a clean start from the selected template, discarding whatever was there before.

The eight templates are spread across five design families. Picking a different family changes the visual style of the sections; picking a different numbered template within the same family changes the mix and order of section types. Read the description and section list that appears when you select a template before applying it so you know what you are adding.