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Cleaning up Project Templates dialog list view in SDL Studio 2017 - SR1

Claudio Nasso

Good morning,

a Happy New Year to all of you, and a “new year wish”, if possible.

When we create a new project, we can set up and save customized Project templates to apply to a series of similar projects.

Project templates are stored in C:\Users\[User-name]\Documents\Studio 2017\Project Templates folder as follows:

and this is fine.

But, sometimes, we must set up and save an updated version of a previously created Project template which will appear as a new Project template, as in the sample here below (Red editing out highlighting a previous and an updated Project template):

This dialog does not permit to delete unwanted old Project templates, or to edit an existing Project template. The only chance we have is to sort them by clicking on “Name” or “Description” column headers.

The only way I have found to get a new “clean” version of this list to avoid possible confusion, and/or duplicates, like this one

requires to open with a simple text editor the C:\Users\[User-name]\Documents\Studio 2017\Projects\projects.xml file and delete any single unwanted sub-node between <ProjectTemplates> and </ProjectTemplates>, e.g.

   <ProjectTemplateListItem Guid="476f140d-555e-48de-b8a4-2cb163d209e9" ProjectTemplateFilePath="C:\Users\Andrea\Documents\Studio 2017\Project Templates\Developer-com-Website.sdltpl">
      <ProjectTemplateInfo Description="" CreatedAt="2017-08-05T07:08:08.0590935Z" CreatedBy="DESKTOP_2\Andrea" />
   </ProjectTemplateListItem>

Now the question is quite simple:

Is it possible to insert in the “New Project” dialog a couple of buttons (and pertinent functions) to edit and/or delete
an existing Project template without being forced to perform this task working inside the project.xml file?

Or, has anyone a better solution to obtain the same result?

Thank you for your attention.

Regards,

Claudio
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    Unknown said:

    Now the question is quite simple:

    Is it possible to insert in the “New Project” dialog a couple of buttons (and pertinent functions) to edit and/or delete
    an existing Project template without being forced to perform this task working inside the project.xml file?

    Or, has anyone a better solution to obtain the same result?

    Happy New Year  

    Two things I guess... first, if you want to suggest new features I recommend you use the Ideas site and not a standard post like this - http://ideas.sdl.com

    Next, I have a better solution for you.  Use File -> Options -> Setup -> Project Templates

    Regards

    Paul

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    Hi Paul,

    I was just doing a bit of housekeeping with my templates - I wasn't sure how to go about editing them, so I tried Help, which for some reason told me I can edit them, but not how. Hence I came across this topic, no sign of Setup in Options, so went back into Help and this time I found it:  File > Setup > Project Templates ... something to do with the morning after? ;-) Incidentally, first time round, I tried searching in Help for "Edit project templates" and dew a blank. It was only going in via the contents tree on the left that I got to it.

    On the same topic, I believe you mentioned that you can apply a template to an existing project - e.g. if I wish to apply my own template to a project sent to me in a package. I forgot to make a note at the time and have no idea how to do it - could you remind me please? A further question, if you do that, does it leave the TMs and TBs that came with the package in place?

    All the best.
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    Hi Paul,

    I was just doing a bit of housekeeping with my templates - I wasn't sure how to go about editing them, so I tried Help, which for some reason told me I can edit them, but not how. Hence I came across this topic, no sign of Setup in Options, so went back into Help and this time I found it:  File > Setup > Project Templates ... something to do with the morning after? ;-) Incidentally, first time round, I tried searching in Help for "Edit project templates" and dew a blank. It was only going in via the contents tree on the left that I got to it.

    On the same topic, I believe you mentioned that you can apply a template to an existing project - e.g. if I wish to apply my own template to a project sent to me in a package. I forgot to make a note at the time and have no idea how to do it - could you remind me please? A further question, if you do that, does it leave the TMs and TBs that came with the package in place?

    All the best.
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