My impression of the LibGuides v2 template system is that it's decent
within strict boundaries. We just launched LibGuides v2 about 6 weeks
ago. We took a look at the templates, and opted not to do anything with
them, because they didn't do what we needed them to.

Our instance of LibGuides is shared between the main campus library and
the health sciences library. Students navigating the system are often
confused if they accidentally wind up looking at a guide produced for
the other set of patrons. So the one thing we really wanted to do was
customize the header of a guide based on whether it was produced at the
health sciences library or at the main campus library, to hopefully help
students keep track of where they are.

Unfortunately, LibGuides' template system can't do that. It only
applies to the content areas of the guide. Within that area, it affords
a great degree of flexibility as regards the HTML markup of the guides.
Outside of that area, it's useless.

So we're running with the defaults. I may revisit those at some point,
but for now we're reasonably happy with them.

Oh, and here's a link to the documentation for the template system:

http://support.springshare.com/libguides/guidetemplates/intro

It does require you to be logged into your LibApps account, because
apparently the details of their templating system is a deep, dark
secret.

Will



On 2014-09-16 10:48, Graham, Jeannie wrote:
> Our library is also just getting ready to delve into LibGuides v2 so
> I'm also interested in hearing what others are doing!
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> Thank you,
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> -- Jeannie Graham
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> Jeannie Graham
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> California State University, Chico
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> Meriam Library - Library Technology Specialist
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav
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> Hi all,
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> I'm finally diving into our Libguides v2 migration and I'm wondering
> if anyone would be willing to share their experience/choices regarding
> templating. (Or even some code!)
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> I'm thinking left-nav is the way to go. Has anyone split the main
> content column into two smaller columns? Done that with a
> column-width-spanning box atop the main content area? Any other neato
> templates ideas?
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> We are in the process of building a "style guide" for all libguides
> authors to use. And also some sort of peer-review process to help
> enforce the style guide. I'm thinking we are going to want to restrict
> all authors to left-nav templates but perhaps the ideal solution would
> be to require left-nav of all but to have a variety of custom left-nav
> templates to choose from.
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> Any thoughts are much appreciated!
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> Warm regards,
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> Brad
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> Brad Coffield, MLIS
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> Assistant Information and Web Services Librarian Saint Francis
> University
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