A product template holds design elements you want to reuse across many products. Connect a catalog product to a template, and the template's elements load inside that catalog product's customizer — without copying them into every product.

This is different from creating a product from a pre-made template. Creating from a template makes a one-time copy. Linking keeps a live connection: edit the template once, and every connected catalog product picks up the change.

Before you start

• You have at least one product saved as a Template. On Chamevo > Products, templates appear under the Templates tab. Use Save as Template on an existing product, or click New Template to build one.
• You have a catalog product to connect. Catalog products are listed under the Catalog Products tab.
• Plan your views: template views and catalog product views are matched by position. View 1 of the template pairs with view 1 of the catalog product, view 2 with view 2, and so on.

Steps

1. Go to Chamevo > Products and open the Catalog Products tab.

2. Find the catalog product you want to connect.

3. Open its settings: click Options on the product row.

4. In the Product Settings panel, find the Linked Product Template dropdown. It lists all of your templates.

5. Select the template to connect.

   

6. Click Save Changes.

How the template and catalog product combine

Once connected, the customizer loads both in a fixed order:

• The template's views form the base of the product.
• Each catalog product view keeps its own title and thumbnail.
• The template's elements load first. The catalog product's own elements load on top of them.
• View settings from the catalog product override the template's view settings when both define the same setting.

In practice: put the shared design — placeholder text, upload areas, decorative graphics — in the template. Put product-specific content, like the product's background image, in the catalog product.