I am working with some custom area templates, and was interested to know if anyone has found any workaround for some bugs. I did not find anything on the ms knowledge base and was unable to locate any information on google.
1. Area Templates do not consider the hidden attribute while showing in the list of templates. When you set an area to let you choose which template to use when creating subareas, all the templates available are presented in that list. Even if you have set the Hidden="True" (which is the default) in the webtempsps file, it displays all the templates. Is there any fix so that it only displays the templates which we want to appear in that list?
2. Multiple configurations in an area template gets ignored. If you have multiple configurations in the onet.xml for your area templates, on creation, it always seem to use the default configuration. Even if you choose the second configuration ( after adding them to your webtemp file ), it creates the area with the default configuration.
Has anyone found a solution to these problems? Or any workaround? The site ones work fine. Just the area ones are all affected by this. I am running SPS 2003 with SP2. I am still trying to find some workaround if there is any for these problems, and will post here if I found any. Please leave a comment if you have found any workaround.