Template availability in STK is controlled at two levels:

1) Site definition controls site-wide template availability. The "default" site 
definition makes templates available to all sites. See Templating Kit > Site 
Definitions > /default/templates/availability. Your site definition can extend 
the default. Here you can also restrict template access to certain roles, see 
stkGlossary for example.

2) Categories determine which template may be assigned to a page. Your question 
about news pertains to this level of control. STK has five out-of-the-box 
template categories (examples in parentheses): 
 - home (stkHome)
 - functional (stkRedirect)
 - section (stkSection)
 - feature (stkNewsOverview)
 - content (stkArticle, stkNews)

Availability plays out like this:
 - Categories allowed at root level: home, functional
 - Categories allowed at root + 1 level: functional, section, feature
 - Categories allowed at root + 2 level and below: functional, section, 
feature, content

The dependencies between categories are not configurable (yet) but you may be 
able to override the behavior. See classes 
info.magnolia.module.templating.Template and 
info.magnolia.module.templatingkit.templates.STKTemplate.

Search also the user list archives, e.g. 
http://old.nabble.com/STK%3A-hierarchy-of-templates-defined-where--td25508007.html#a25508007.
 

--Antti


On Nov 3, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Jon RINGWOOD PSE 55500 wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how template types are restricted in the Website? For 
> example, in the news-overview folder you can only select certain template 
> types for new pages. Similarly the about page can only be set to a 
> predetermined list of templates. How is this done?
> 
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