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October 31, 2008 1:35pm
Subscribe [4]#1 / Oct 31, 2008 1:35pm
Is there any way to hide templates from the dropdown list in the Pages module?
Application: Have 3 templates for a client—one-column, two-column, and three-column. Click the template dropdown and see 19 templates (embeds, headers, javascript, etc…) A bit confusing.
Using the “.template_name” only works in the URL bar of the site itself.
#2 / Jun 21, 2010 10:48am
Did you ever find a solution for this? I really only want a client to use one template, but I’ve got like 50 templates on the site.
#3 / Jun 21, 2010 11:24am
I do not think you can in the pages module.
However, some of the other hierachy based modules do allow this with their systems.
But i agree an annoying one!
You can set a default template to be auto selected though - which might reduce client based errors.
#4 / Jun 22, 2010 5:19am
I’d totally agree, Pages really needs to let you hide templates, from an end user perspective it’s very confusing. I’d *really really really* like to see this. The pages module seems a little under-baked in my opinion.
Also I think it would be handy if you could give templates a human friendly name as you can with the channels. It would be even nicer if you could attach and image for the templates and let the admin choose visually. A great example of this is how http://www.campaignmonitor.com do it in their system.