Template description

[Peter Knight]

When creating or adding a new template I'd like a short template description field.

That template description should then also be visible when choosing a template for a page.

If you've a lot of templates, it gives editors some asseurance that the template they are selecting is the correct one.

[adrian]

There is the label field of course - you can make this quite long and it is used when selecting a template for a page. Is that enough?

[Nico Knoll]

I always use the label field as the following:

Gallery | Use this template to automatically generate a gallery from an image field.

[Peter Knight]

Nico 

Youre right of course - I could always use a very long template name.

I just tried your example and wierdly enough, when I hit submit PW tried to create a separate template for every word in the template title.

So not I have templates called

a

automatically

Gallery

generate

template

this

to

use

-

Wierd !

[adrian]

I think you might have found a hidden feature there Actually not hidden - the instructions mention you can do that - the ability to create multiple templates with space separated names  

But Nico is saying to use the Label field - this is collapsed by default and only available once the template has already been saved.

Edited August 14, 2014 by adrian

[DaveP]

There is also Soma's Template Notes module - http://modules.processwire.com/modules/template-notes/