Add A New Template Project To The Template Center

A member of the Plone site (logged-in user) could add own template projects to the ‘Template Center’ once he called the appropriate form for new such projects and fill in the necessary data.

He has to click with the mouse first on the link in the box on the right side (see screenshot below).

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This mouse click opens the form for providing new templates. The form dialog consists of several register. The form fields in the first register asks for more general information about the project. It’s possible to edit and change the content of the fields later, if the focus or the features of the project varies.

The First Register ‘Default’

The new template project needs its own title with a length from 5 to 50 characters. This title has to be unique inside the ‘Template Center’. If there is already another template project with the same title the member will get an error message with the appropriate information. Thus he had to choose another title for his template project.

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A new project needs also a summary and could get a full description of its purpose and features. The latter one is optional (only form fields with a red point behind the title are mandatory).

It’s also necessary that the member provides an email-address. This address will be used to get in contact with the project (owner). The ‘Template Center’ sends e.g. messages if the status of the project changes (e.g. it was published by a reviewer). Users of the project / template could send feedback to the author within a form. The content of this form will be send by email to the project (owner) (The feedback provider will not see the email address of the project).

The last field contains the version number of the template project. The field starts with a value of ‘1.0’. But the project owner could change this value to the appropriate version number of the template file. The number ‘1.0’ means that the template file is ready for production. If this is not the case this version number should have a leading zero.

If the project owner replaces the template file(s) with a newer one, she / he have to change the value of the version field. But there is no reminder / error message yet for this task yet. It’s on her / his own responsibility not to forget to update the version number in that case.