Use this tool to customize the output of yoru Bricolage documents. Here you will create templates generate output from your story docments, increasing your options and molding the publishing tool to suit your needs.

There are three kinds of templates you can produce:

Element Templates
Element templates are related to a specific element or subelement. They are called when the element is passed to a call to $burner->display_element in a template. Each template belongs to one output channel, so to render a story in three output channels requires three templates. The exception to this rule is when you make an output channel include the templates from another output channel.
Category Templates
Category templates are the default template handler (known as an autohandler to the Mason burner) for a category in an output channel. Category templates allow you to wrap text (usually HTML headers and footers) around the chain of elements burned in that category and its subcategories.
Utility Templates
Utility templates contain generic code that can be re-used in other templates, like validation calls, etc. they can be either output channel-specific be associated with an output channel specifically created to contain hold utility templates. In the latter case, make the utility templates in the utility output channel available to your other output channels by including the utility output channel in the other output channels.

Properties

Template Type
One of the above types
File Type
You only need to change this if you are not using the default Mason burner to render your templates. Required.
Output Channel
The destination for the Template, once it is deployed. Required.
Category
Where on the site the Template will be deployed. This has implications for where your template can be called from. Required.
Priority
Tells users how urgent the Template is (with respect to its movement through a workflow). Required. If you're not sure the default setting is fine.

When finished, click Create. This will bring you to the Template Profile page.