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I have created a personalised layout, but I need guides to be included, and whilst I can add these to the document created, I cannot see anyway that the template will have these guides included, What am I missing?

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3 minutes ago, E9B6 said:

I cannot see anyway that the template will have these guides included

If you are truly creating a Template, not a New Document Preset, everything in the document will be part of the Template, including your Guides.

For example, you should see intersecting pink guides in this V2 Template if you Open it.

 

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-- Walt
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Rather than creating a template, I was trying to create a page preset with the guides included. Do I assume that this is not possible and I must create a full template instead?

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Trying to set up a template

Help says

To set up a target template folder:
  • From the New Document dialog, with Templates selected from the left-hand side, click Add template folder.

A file browser window will appear, allowing you to specify a folder location.

BUT IT DOESN'T

There are no options appearing on the screen.

The same happens when I try to use a template. It asked for folder, I stupidly selected affinity. Now every document I created appears as a template.

Try as I might I cannot delete the so called templates, nor the folders that appear,.

 

HELP PLEASE

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24 minutes ago, E9B6 said:

Rather than creating a template, I was trying to create a page preset with the guides included. Do I assume that this is not possible and I must create a full template instead?

Yes. Presets do not have any content, just settings (such as margins).

3 minutes ago, E9B6 said:

To set up a target template folder:

  • From the New Document dialog, with Templates selected from the left-hand side, click Add template folder.

A file browser window will appear, allowing you to specify a folder location.

 

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5 minutes ago, E9B6 said:

The same happens when I try to use a template. It asked for folder, I stupidly selected affinity. Now every document I created appears as a template.

If I understand what you did, on the opposite side from that Add Folder icon you'll find a Trashcan icon to remove the folder from your Template list.

-- Walt
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    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
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There are a few steps involved. First you need to decide where you want to have your Template files stored, I have mine in my Documents folder inside a set of directories called Affinity Stuff > Templates > Designer, or Photo, or Publisher and then further divided into other usefully named directories. This was done in the Mac OS Finder, on Windows I guess you would make the directories using File Explorer (I am not sure of the name in Windows). Now I go to Publisher and set up a normal new document that has everything I want, A Document Colour Swatches palette with colours, Guides, Text Styles, etc. Finally I go to File > Export as Template and navigate to the appropriate directory (in my case Documents > Affinity Stuff > Templates > Publisher > Books) to save that Template file in.

In order to access that Template I go to Publisher's File > New document window and choose Templates*, click on the Add Folder that @walt.farrell shows you and then navigate to (using my example's directory structure) Documents > Affinity Stuff > Templates,  then choose from the folder named Books and open the template file from there.

 

* This will give me the starting point to further navigate to the one Template file I want. You may be fine with storing all the various Template files in one single directory but I like to organize by Application and further organize by other criteria using directories.

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If they (the folders/directories) are empty, just use the File Explorer (if that is what it is called in Windows, on Mac the OS calls it the Finder) and delete them, move them to the Trashcan.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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15 minutes ago, E9B6 said:

I have managed to add templates but there are hundreds of other folders shown which are erroneous.

If you Add a Template folder, all the folders it contains are also shown and searched. 

Solution: create a specific folder or folders to hold your templates, put the templates in them.

You can then Remove the folders you've already added, so they don't show up in that dialog.

-- Walt
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    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
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4 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

You can then Remove the folders you've already added, so they don't show up in that dialog.

At least on my Mac, deleting unwanted folders from the Templates view has to be done one at a time. I'm not sure how the OP managed to add so many of them, but since that is apparently possible, it would be nice if we could select more than one folder at a time to delete them all in one step.

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43 minutes ago, R C-R said:

At least on my Mac, deleting unwanted folders from the Templates view has to be done one at a time. I'm not sure how the OP managed to add so many of them, but since that is apparently possible, it would be nice if we could select more than one folder at a time to delete them all in one step.

They appeared, I think, because they are subfolders of a template folder the OP added. Just remove that parent folder and all its subfolders should be gone, too.

-- Walt
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PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
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14 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

They appeared, I think, because they are subfolders of a template folder the OP added. Just remove that parent folder and all its subfolders should be gone, too.

Hopefully, there is just one parent of all the folders shown, but since we can't see the top or bottom of the list, there might be several.

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57 minutes ago, E9B6 said:

still haven't found out how to delete the template folders from the list on the screen

Can you not use the Windows OS Explorer to go to the C:\Users\Owner\Documents... etc and select and delete them?

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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1 hour ago, E9B6 said:

still haven't found out how to delete the template folders from the list on the screen

Use the Remove button on the lower right.

-- Walt
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PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
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40 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Can you not use the Windows OS Explorer to go to the C:\Users\Owner\Documents... etc and select and delete them?

That will delete the folders. I think the desire is to have them not show up on the Template dialog.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
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2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Use the Remove button on the lower right.

From the AD 2 help topic Document templates, note the following:

removetemplate.jpg.9b4a4554613fa973f40b9c6b20206191.jpg

So the OP needs to select a top level folder, not an indented sub-folder of it for the button (trashcan icon) to be visible.

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Thanks, @R C-R.

As I mentioned earlier:

On 5/31/2024 at 12:21 PM, walt.farrell said:

If you Add a Template folder, all the folders it contains are also shown and searched. 

Solution: create a specific folder or folders to hold your templates, put the templates in them.

You can then Remove the folders you've already added, so they don't show up in that dialog.

I should probably have said to start with the topmost parent folder when doing the removal.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
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