Page inheritance
Feature idea:
It'd be nice to be able to mark templates as "abstract", similiar to how a class in C# can be flagged as abstract in order to keep it from being used directly. I have a template that defines a site header and footer, a child template that adds global nav and search, and other area-specific templates (product pages, support, etc). It would be great to be able to flag templates so that they can't be used directly to create a page, but only as a basis for other templates.
This could be added as a flag in the advanced section, or Title and Properties dialog of the template editor to avoid complicating the backend interface.
Hello Dave,
Thank you very much for pointing out the need for such functionality. We have logged a feature request for its implementation, you can track its progress and vote for its popularity on this public URL.
Greetings,
Boyan Barnev
the Telerik team