Best way to assign panel template?

The CMS Questions
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Wondering what’s best practice in v5+…

I have a few folders stacked for a project and I’m wondering if the .txt for the content should be:
content/collection/category/category.txt and then change the template in the txt file.
or
content/collection/category/template.txt to assign the template with the file itself.

In my v5 project the former (/item.txt and then assign template in txt) is not working.
Any common issues I should know about?

The later is working for me at the moment but not sure if it’s recommended?

Thanks!

2

I’m not sure what the difference is between those two options apart from the template name.

And K5 is no different regarding the assignment of templates (which is done via a pages section) than previous Kirby versions.

Could you please explain in more detail what you want to achieve?

3

I have various category folders in a collection of items that I’m organizing, and I want all the category panel pages to have the same blueprint. Just wondering if it’s best to match the txt file name with the folder name and assign the blueprint template in the txt, or if it’s fine to just use the blueprint txt i want in a category’s folder (doesn’t match folder name). Hope this makes sense!

4

A blueprint is assigned to a page via the filename of the .txt file that sits in the folder, not somewhere inside the txt file. There is no alternative to this.