Hi!
Follow-On Question about template availability:
Generally I understand the template availability mechanism as explained by
Antti.
Class TemplateAvailability determines which of the set of templates are
available to the user, based on:
- the template category
- the configured availability under site definition ->
mysite/templates/availability/templates
My Question is about the availability and Site Definitions. We are trying to
create a master site definition, with "site variants" based on this master
definition, using the "extends" feature.
If we configure the availability on the master site, and then configure a
different availability on a site variant, magnolia always offers all templates
for selection: those from the master site, plus the additional ones from the
site variant. If we remove a template availability entry in the site variant,
the template is still available if configured in the master site.
In other words, the extends features seems to work only in an "additive" way -
the available templates can only be increased, not reduced.
Is this analysis correct?
Is there any way you could suggest that will achieve site variants extending
the master definition, but that have their own template availability
definitions?
Thanks!
Regards from Vienna,
Richard
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Im Auftrag von Antti Hietala
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 03. November 2010 16:44
An: Magnolia User-List
Betreff: Re: [magnolia-user] Template availability
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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