Templates
Templates provide a way to create a standardized look across multiple views.
A template is a view that someone marks as being usable as a template in the
Overview properties. Users can then select the template when they are
creating their views. The new views have the content of the template as base content, to which users
can then add content. For example, you create a view that has the company logo and name in a banner
area, and a content box as a placeholder for other content. When you use this view as a template,
you can then select it when you are creating another view. The new view has the banner area defined
in the template along with an area for content. Other users can also use the template when they are
creating views, so that there is a consistent look across the new views. Because templates are
views, you can also drop them onto coaches. For example, if you have a template that has a common
banner, you can drop it onto a coach so that the coach has the common banner.
Tip: If
the template is using cells in a grid layout, the direction settings of the cells override the
preview settings of any content boxes in those cells.
The template also serves as a way to update multiple views simultaneously. Because the template is a reference to a view and not a copy, if you change the template, all the views based on that template are updated as well with those changes. To continue the previous example, you update the template to change the logo image. All the views that use your template are updated with the new logo.