# How can I enable new page creation in the page button in the experience manager for a channel

**URL:** <https://community.bloomreach.com/t/how-can-i-enable-new-page-creation-in-the-page-button-in-the-experience-manager-for-a-channel/4157>\
**Category:** Experience Manager (PaaS/OnPrem)\
**Created:** [October 31, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/how-can-i-enable-new-page-creation-in-the-page-button-in-the-experience-manager-for-a-channel/4157 "2023-10-31T05:14:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shinoy\_Jose](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/shinoy_jose/32/1366_2.png) [@Shinoy\_Jose](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/Shinoy_Jose)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/how-can-i-enable-new-page-creation-in-the-page-button-in-the-experience-manager-for-a-channel/4157/1 "2023-10-31T05:14:17Z")

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How can I enable new page creation in the page button in the experience manager for a channel Currently its disabled.  
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**Author:** ![david.bailey](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/david.bailey/32/1490_2.png) [@david.bailey](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/david.bailey)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 7:47am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/how-can-i-enable-new-page-creation-in-the-page-button-in-the-experience-manager-for-a-channel/4157/2 "2023-10-31T07:47:50Z")

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> **[Prototype Pages Configuration - Bloomreach Experience Manager...](https://xmdocumentation.bloomreach.com/library/concepts/hst-configuration-model/prototypepages-configuration.html)**
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> The fast and flexible on-premise or PaaS headless CMS

Please note we don’t recommend using prototype pages anymore as they can cause performance issues in certain scenarios. Experience pages are preferred [Experience Pages - Bloomreach Experience Manager (PaaS/Self-Hosted) - The Fast and Flexible Headless CMS](https://xmdocumentation.bloomreach.com/library/concepts/experience-pages/introduction.html)

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**Author:** ![Shinoy\_Jose](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/shinoy_jose/32/1366_2.png) [@Shinoy\_Jose](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/Shinoy_Jose)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 6:23am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/how-can-i-enable-new-page-creation-in-the-page-button-in-the-experience-manager-for-a-channel/4157/4 "2023-11-06T06:23:49Z")

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Thanks @david.bailey for the response. I have one more query

Is there a way to configure the URL(stem) to a particular page(i.e when adding new page its gets added under a particular page) for example url should be localhost/someurl/someotherurl always when trying to add a new page

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**Author:** ![david.bailey](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/david.bailey/32/1490_2.png) [@david.bailey](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/david.bailey)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 8:10am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/how-can-i-enable-new-page-creation-in-the-page-button-in-the-experience-manager-for-a-channel/4157/5 "2023-11-06T08:10:34Z")

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I don’t think you can force the stem to always be something specific. A potential workaround you could explore is to use the event listeners to detect the creation of a page and modify the sitemap under the workspace manually [Respond to a Page Create, Copy, Move, Delete, or Update Event - Bloomreach Experience Manager (PaaS/Self-Hosted) - The Fast and Flexible Headless CMS](https://xmdocumentation.bloomreach.com/library/concepts/template-composer/hook-into-page-actions.html)

Xpages are much easier because they are configured under normal sitemap items in the configuration, so you just need to create a sitemapitem that points to the pages folder.