Say Goodbye to Blank Pages: Modern SharePoint Templates Are Here

Hi GiulianoDeLuca​ , do you know if it’s possible to add an image to the template in the gallery without it being used when users create pages/news from the template? For example, we have a news template that we want our users to use, but where the thumbnail image should be unique for each news item. If I add a thumbnail image to the template, it doesn’t automatically get replaced by the images users add to the page. I want to avoid them having to upload a thumbnail image as an extra step and instead have it always pulled from the actual page.

Super bad feature for anything else than showcasing SharePoint capabilities. Every customer organization of mine wants to hide these OOTB templates, since we've designed on brand templates for them. We need at least a PowerShell command to disable these asap! 👎🏻

These templates don't save me any time. Having to have conversations about why they can't be used it taking up more of my time.

I'm really getting annoyed with Microsoft trying to force bad design (mobile obviously wasn't a consideration) with random colors that customers can't at the very least customize to match their brand. Microsoft is not in charge of any customers' brand colors, fonts, etc. If a customer's colors are red and blue they shouldn't have other colors forced upon them. I haven't looked into how these comply with accessibility standards yet, but considering alternative text was removed for images used in Quick Links I have a feeling there will be problems.

Hi,

For the moment is not possible to disable the list of templates, I suggest you to raise a ticket and ask Microsoft to implement the ability to turn off this capability.

GiulianoDeLuca​ Do you know if we will be able to disable certain templates that don't meet our company strategy, branding, etc.? I'm sure we'll want to keep some of them, but if there is no option to remove certain ones it will be an issue for us.

EDIT: I've just been trying them out and they're not great in my opinion - every one of them uses flex-layouts which isn't what we want as the default in our company. I'm really hoping we can disable a lot of these after trying them. And not at all intuitive with naming the page before you save it.