Adding further template choices?

[bizweb]

Hello People,

Is it possible to add many additional templates and make them available in the template dropdown within actinic products/fragments/sections?.

Seems that if this were so it would be very useful

Alec

[Mike Hughes]

In a short answer, yes.

I think the details are in the advanced user guide. There's a file somewhere that needs to be updated with the location and description of the new templates.

Mike

[bizweb]

Thanks!

Thanks Mike,

I'll go digging in the Advanced Guide...

-Alec

[bizweb]

Found it!

I couldn't find the details in the advanced guide but I nosed around the site directory and found a bunch of .ini files.

They detail each of the templates together with the description for the dropdown.

The one I was after is called ProductTemplates.ini

Cool

Alec

[Nadeem]

Hi there

Just to add in a new feature of version 7. There is an easier way of doing this, rather than editing the 'ProductTemplate.ini' which you can also do.

Here is an example:
Go into "Design | Option | Layout". For the "Default Overall Layout", click on "Select". Now in the "Section Primary Template" box, simply click/highlight on "Default Primary Template", or whatever one you would like. Now click on "Edit".
Here you can now see the coding, but go to "File | Save As", you could now get "New Template" dialog box, which you can change the "Filename", "Description" and even put a "Preview Image". Once you clicked on "OK", the new file should appear in the dropdown list.

Kind Regards