teppokoivula
commented
6 years ago If this is added to the core, perhaps it should depend on a ProcessPageAdd module setting?
Obviously depends on the use case, but in our case more than one template may be allowed, but almost always "default" is the one that should be used. An empty option would mean that almost every time users add a new page they need extra clicks to choose a specific template.
Although I appreciate your point of forcing the user to think about their choice, and I have heard a couple of reports about this same problem from our users, in my opinion this would also make the workflow less intuitive.
juergenweb
According to this discussion in the forum it would be great if you could implement this into the core.
The situation: The template select field offers editors to choose between various templates. At the moment always one template is pre-selected. This leads to that editors often ignore (or dont take care) of this field and press the save button. After that they notice that they have choosen the wrong template. It would be better that no template is pre-selected so that editors will get an error message if they do not choose on of them. So editors will be forced to select one. In other words they need to think over which kind of template to choose.
At the moment we have solved this issue via a Hook, but I think it would be better to add this directly into the core.
Best regards.