I’m a bit confused about how to make templates work in my situation. I have separate groups that will manage their own signs and layouts. I want to provide templates for them to use, but the only way to do that is to make the template at least viewable to everyone. Unfortunately, once I do that, it seems the system saves the resulting layout as also viewable (and editable it seems despite the system default permissions being set to private) by everyone. Is this a glitch or intended, and would it be possible in the future to separate the settings to actually see the template from the settings with which the resulting layout is saved?
What CMS version are you using please?
I am using Xibo 1.7.8.
I don’t think that’s correct - you should be able to assign permissions to a template to specific user / user groups not necessarily to everyone.
In 1.7 series it will copy permissions from the template to the layout that was created using that template.
ie if user had view permissions to a template, then that user will have view permissions to layout created with that template.
At least in 1.7.9 it seems to work fine.
I believe that’s already done in 1.8 series.
Thank you Peter!
You are correct on number 1 – I can set individuals/Groups, however the intended result is for all users to be able to select the templates.
The primary problem was what you addressed in number 2 where the permissions are being copied. We did not want that to be the case since we only wanted people to see their own group’s layouts.
I have been making a push for our sysadmin team to give us a development instance of one of the 1.8 release candidates, so I look forward to testing that functionality there soon as it is a major part of our intended workflow 
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Much appreciated!