Templates

A Template Group is a group of templates that can be applied to any folder on your website. For example, let's say your site has three templates - marketing, technical support, and press releases. Using Template Groups, a site administrator can assure that nobody is going to use an inappropriate template in any part of the site - in other words, nobody can create a technical support template inside a marketing directory. This helps to keep your website more organized, and therefore easier for both your end users and content contributors to navigate.

The Process

Please note that Template Groups can only be implemented by an administrator.

The first logical step is to list your groups on paper, or in your head. Decide on the correspondance between templates and directories. Note that any directory without a specified template group will see ALL of the templates.

Now, begin creating your Template Groups. Log in to OmniUpdate, either by clicking on the login button (usually a date stamp) on a page of your site, or directly proceeding to your login page. Click the Setup tab, and choose Templates from the menu directly below.

After selecting the site for the template group, you'll see a button to create a new Template Group. Click that button, and you'll be presented with a new page displaying all of your site's templates with a checkbox nearby, along with a text box to type your group name.

Simply fill in the desired name at the top of the page, and select the templates you want in the group. Click "Create Template Group" to confirm your choices.

Now that a template group has been created, it can be applied to a directory. Click the Content tab, and you'll automatically be brought to the Pages screen. Click the Access button for the folder to which you'd like to apply the Template Group, and select your newly-created group from the dropdown box that appears on the Assign Access Privileges page. As it states just below the box, directories inherit their Template Groups by default. So, if you're in the "support" directory of your site, and there are Product1, Product2, and Product3 subdirectories, this Template Group will take effect to all subdirectories below, unless otherwise specified by applying a Template Group to that lower-level subdirectory.

The final step of the process is to test the group you've created. Click the New Page option, and note which templates appear. If the only ones that appear are the ones you selected earlier, great! You've successfully built and applied a Template Group to a directory. Now, you can repeat this process with other directories on your site. Otherwise, if the templates do NOT appear correctly, go back and review the process - make sure that you applied the Template Group to the same folder (or one above) that you're trying to create the new web page in.