I’ve been putting off testing out Templates, and now that I finally did I’m a bit confused… I just did a comment about how I was expecting a Template to be “live”, meaning changes to it would reflect on all Objects created with it (or at least have the option to do so). But I found that all it does…

[image] qualquertipo: For example, for my Book template, I’d like to add a sample image with the desired proportion and/or width, and then set it as “dummy”. That way when I create a new Book object, I just need to click on that image and get the dialog asking me to pick an image or take a pictu…

[image] lynxlove: Image block already works as such. Adding an image block in a template without adding any images will work in the same way you’ve described. Yes, but I’d like to have a placeholder image there. Helps to quickly communicate what type of content is supposed to go on that place…

[image] lynxlove: This would be super useful. I prefer a placeholder text as well. So when the template is opened, it would display the placeholder text but when an object is created from it, it should be empty / Untitled Actually what I’d prefer here is to show the title I set in the templat…

[image] lynxlove: Templates are currently blueprints for new objects of a type to be created. As such, they are only used when a new object is created. This discussion has links to several different feature requests including template sync which would make templates work in the way you envisione…

Your feature request has turned into a Christmas list! :smile: There are several ideas and obviously if you had followed the request form, you would have realized that you should have created a request for each one. For me you don’t misunderstand the concept of templates, to be honest the placehol…

More robust Templates (for more streamlined Object creation)

Feature Requests

qualquertipo February 22, 2022, 7:57pm 5

Yep! Thanks again for linking that.

I might make a post/request for this (so it’s not buried in the comments there).

How can I create a Template? What are Templates used for?