Organizing Templates

System

When creating a New Data Record, in the Create New Data Record window, say we have something like this

Category: Extranet Type: Customer
Category: Extranet Type: Supplier
Category: Extranet Type: Other
Category: Intranet Type: Finance
Category: Intranet Type: HR
Category: Intranet Type: Legal
Category: Internet Type: PressRelease
Category: Internet Type: Other
Category: Internet Type: Generic

I'm having about three templates in each category here. When I have about 10 or 15 templates in each category, the list grows very big. Is there a way to kind of folderize them, say three top level folders, one for Internet, one for Extranet & one for Intranet and clicking on them should provide the list of templates within them.

A note: I'm still on a older version of TeamSite, (4.5). So, I don't know if anything has changed in 5.0 or 5.5.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks
Saravanan

Migrateduser

With templating you only get two levels of naming (category and type). However, you can name a category and a type anything you want to. The trick is to choose your naming convention so that you get the desired number of template types per category.

You can not folderize the templates beyond the category/type folders because of how templating works. It expects to see a file named datacapture.cfg in the "type" folder under each "category" folder -- and that is your DCT. To add more folder levels, would break the templating model.

You may need more descriptive category names.

On the flip side, you can always limit the number of templates seen based on user names, roles, and branch/workarea locations. This is all handled in the templating.cfg file.

David M. Doggette
Certified Interwoven Consultant