Editor 2.0: access to the Starter Templates to be controlled through a role permission

[Grégoire_Miche2]

In the new editor 2.0, the starter templates can be seen and used by all users or by none of them.

The risk with making them available to every one is that everyone starts feeling they are designers and start creating completely non-compliant emails.

So it may make sense that, in some orgs, the access to the starter templates is set to off.

But, a very nice feature is now available in the editor: the possibility to pick a template, change some settings, and save the result as a new template.

So this means that even in the organization that want to control tightly the usage of non-branding-compliant templates, some dedicated users should have access to these starter templates to be able to adapt them and create new custom templates from them.

Therefore, it would be great if, instead of being a total on-off, the access to starter templates would be granted a specific role permission, so that only some users (the ones that are given the proper roles, typically the web designers) can get to them and use them to create new emails and new templates for the rest of the team.

-Greg

[Grégoire_Miche2]

Hi Jeffrey Brown and Jherod Bauders ,

Why are you downvoting?

I do not mean only admin should get it, but that access to the starter templates should be a permission in roles, instead of only having the possibility to set it on or off for everyone at once. With a permission, we could define precisely who which users would access to it and which ones would not.

-Greg

[Anonymous]

Hi Gregoire!

From my end, I believe that the tools are already in place to handle this without additional functionality. With proper governance, this should be a non-issue. Have you run into issues with users editing the starter templates? If so, what functionality did they need access to in the design studio? Typically we form a very clear delineation between "designers" and "non-designers" who do not need access to the design studio.

[Grégoire_Miche2]

Hi Jherod,

The starter template are OK, but not all companies would want them to be made available to all users. They allow too many possibilities to get out of the corporate guidelines. If you are a small company, the risk is not that big because the people who create the emails are usually very close to the ones who define the guidelines. But in large, international ones, the corporate team may want to control. On the starter templates as they are defined, one can freely change the colors or choose layouts that would not be approved by the corp.

Access to the starter templates is not restricted to the design studio-enabled users. If they are activated, absolutely everyone can use them.

On the other end, if you disable it, you disable it for absolutely everyone, including web designers and admins.

So I think that the right to access/use the starter templates should be a role permission so that it could be granted granularly.

-Greg

[Colin_Ryder]

Hi Greg

I like the idea. Do you think we could also ask for the option to "Save as a Template" to also be disabled for certain users in the same way.

For us, I'd like only Admins or Super Users to be able to do this. Otherwise we're gonna have non savvy people creating lots of templates because they think it's easier than cloning an email.

[Grégoire_Miche2]

Hi Colin,

Yes, you are right. Enter the idea, I'll add it to the list here: Email editor 2.0 is leaving room for a v2.1

-Greg

[Devon_Bell]

Has this been addressed yet? I'd love to be able to use the starter templates, but there is NO way I can turn this on for all my users.