Could the page template spontaneously change?

2025/10/24 7:20 PM

During the editing experience, what would cause the page template to suddenly change?

Suddenly in the middle of editing a page on the page builder, an editor got an error "Areas with the following identifiers are missing from the page markup: mainarea. Saving the page will result in lost data."

Generally I know this means an area identifier was changed in a view, however after looking into this it appears that the entire ContentItemCommonDataVisualBuilderTemplateConfiguration and ContentItemCommonDataVisualBuilderWidgets in the db were spontaneously changed to exactly match these fields for a page that was recently created. Since the content type of the page being edited at the time was of a different type, the widgets and areas obviously would not resolve.

The only way I can imagine something like this happening is making changes to the db directly. Any other insight would be appreciated.


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Answers

2025/10/28 7:36 PM

No, a page's page template cannot spontaneously change.

Are there any automated processes - for example, based on global events - that could be using the wrong identifiers to modify pages?

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