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#1 2016-05-23 06:30:25

aebolzan
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From: City Bell, Argentina
Registered: 2013-04-12
Posts: 124
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Copying templates

My  website involves three levels: one is the "root" that opens a page with  a small set of pictures and a short  a menu ("Spanish/English"), and two sublevels each one corresponding to either the Spanish or the English version of the web site (at least it is the current CE4 site) that includes the traditional menu and the different albums of pictures.  I would like to know if with Backlight is it possible to copy templates from one level to the other, so that I do not need to start each level from scratch (only change parts of text from one language to the other) and can avoid possible mistakes when writting the templates for each level (root, English, Spanish).  I am particularly interested in maintainig the same design for pages, menu and albums for the different levels. I know that I could open each level side by side as admin and use copy&paste but this is a tedious work and prone to errors....

Hope I have been not too confusing  with my question...

Agustin

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#2 2016-05-23 06:36:46

rod barbee
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From: Port Ludlow, WA USA
Registered: 2012-09-24
Posts: 17,830
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Re: Copying templates

you can clone templates in an installation of Backlight.
http://backlight.theturninggate.net/doc … e_designer

But if you're asking if you can copy templates from one installation to another, then that's not yet possible (I don't know if it will be)


Rod 
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#3 2016-05-23 06:57:24

aebolzan
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From: City Bell, Argentina
Registered: 2013-04-12
Posts: 124
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Re: Copying templates

Yes, I guess it would require an export/import templates mechanism  in Backlight....

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#4 2016-05-23 10:15:42

rod barbee
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From: Port Ludlow, WA USA
Registered: 2012-09-24
Posts: 17,830
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Re: Copying templates

If you're creating more than one Backlight site what you could try is design one, then download the backlight/ folder to your computer and then upload it to the other site.
Log in and change the site and company URL for the second site.
Then create another Publisher instance for the other site


Rod 
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ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site

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