Slide or Template?
| Slide | Template | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | a finished piece of content | a layout with placeholders |
| Add to a playlist | directly | no – a Slide is created from it |
| Change content | in the Designer | fill the placeholders when creating the Slide |
| Change design | affects only this Slide | affects all Slides created from it |
| Plugin required | no | Template plugin |
When a Slide?
Section titled “When a Slide?”When you need a piece of content once: the poster for an event, a special welcome.
When a Template?
Section titled “When a Template?”When the same layout is needed again and again with different content: a room sign for every meeting room, the daily special that changes every week. You design the layout once, mark text and images as placeholders and create Slides from it by simply filling in the placeholders.
If the design changes later – a new font, a different logo – you only change the Template. All Slides created from it adopt the new design.
More on this: Define placeholders and Create Slides from Templates.