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To define the default layout of a data entry page, you have to add the following line to templates.properties file: <directory_name>/<definition_page_filename>~mp~defaultfile_path>~mp~default=<directory_name>/<layout_filename>.xml
To define the default layout of a data entry page for a specific unit, you have to add the following line to templates.properties file: <directory_name>/<definition_page_file_filename>~channeltypes~<unitpath>~channeltypes~<unit_id>=<directory_name>/<layout_filename>.xml
Note that ../pages/dataEntry as well as .xml are omitted from definition_page_file_path.
If no default layout page is specified for a specific unit, the default layout page will be used by the system. If no default layout page is specified either, the release layout page will be used.
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