Hi, is there a way to set custom per-layout information (akin to projectOtherInfo) that’s accessible in page templates? If not, what’s the best way to make such a feature request?
It would be wonderful if I could have a few fields associated with each layout that I could customize the text in, and use in my page templates via something like {@layoutOtherInfo@}.
For example, as a brass player I love having the set of mutes needed in a piece listed right below the layout name, but right now I don’t see how to create that other than overriding the page template (or manual steps after printing/PDF export).
If with override the page template you mean editing the layout directly (if not, then you can ignore what follows), for cases like your described situation you could create a dedicate part page template (for each layout that requires extra information) that you apply to each layout as needed, without page overrides:
create a new page template, based on First, type Custom and renamed appropriately (for example “First for Trombones”)
So you don’t have page overrides. And you have a good overview of which page template is being used by which part layout. You see a green upper border on the first page of the layouts that have a page template change.
Thanks! Yes, editing the layout directly was what I meant by “override the page template” (perhaps I’m mixing terminology with Affinity Publisher?). You’re right that it would be possible to create new templates; though in extreme cases that could lead to an explosion of templates.
I would definitely love to have some customizable per-layout text tokens for cases like that