Hi,

The point of templates is to preserve exactly the same settings across all the documents that use them. Therefore what you are asking goes directly against their functionality. However you have several options you could consider:

Create a copy of the template, assign it to a document and modify the web part properties. You can either clone the template in CMS Site Manager -> Development -> Page templates, or create ad-hoc copy for a single document in the CMS Desk -> Content -> Edit -> Properties -> Template.

Other solution could be to use widgets, for which you can define a default layout and properties in Style tab and modify them for each document in Page tab. However, you should be aware of limitations of using widgets.

Regards,
Josef Dvorak

I'm assuming by "settings" you mean setting the properties of a web part. If so, use macros. If you can't find a macro within the system, make you own.

Hi Paul,

You could create a template and then use widget areas which allow the user to specify their own properties for the widget (widget is just a web part which can be added into the editable regions and you can also expose the properties to the user if you wish).

Might be worth looking at this as well.

Thanks,

Matt