Saving a component schema as a generic schema

Last updated: 9/14/2025

About this task

You can create a generic schema by saving the schema defined in a component. To do so, follow the steps below:

Open the Basic settings view of the component that has the schema you want to create a generic schema from, and click the [...] button next to Edit schema to open the Schema dialog box.
Click the floppy disc icon to open the Select folder dialog box.
Select a folder if needed, and click OK to close the dialog box and open the Save as generic schema creation wizard.
Fill in the Name field (required) and the other fields if needed, and click Finish to save the schema. Then close the Schema dialog box opened from the component Basic settings view.
The schema is saved in the selected folder under the Generic schemas node in the Repository tree view.

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