Drupal - delete template not associated with any content

Second problem, copy/paste one row with menu inside, between templates, change menu from "Horizontal Menu 1" to "Horizontal Menu 4".

Hi,

Sorry for the delay.

If someone type just one character wrong in custom Drupal template name, later it is not possible to delete this template.
Because of this wrong character there is not content associated with this template and dropdown switch back to "Home" template.

In general, Custom Template always shows Home page content. To switch to this template you don't need to associate any content with it.

I've found only one problem when you name the file with duplicated "page" word.
Please let us know in which other cases you can't navigate to custom template.

Second problem, copy/paste one row with menu inside, between templates, change menu from "Horizontal Menu 1" to "Horizontal Menu 4".

Yes, you should either use Sidebars or Paste the Row with menu as link using "Paste Link" option.

Thank you,
Olivia

UPD:

I've found only one problem when you name the file with duplicated "page" word.

Our developers added validation to avoid this problem.

Thank you,
Olivia

Olivia, I dont care what is normal for Drupal part to switch to, Home or not. Problem is when I chose one custom template it switch to Home and "Remove template" option is greyed, not active.

How to associate this template to content if it is to start with filename named not according to any Drupal core routing logic.

You have to account we Users will make mistakes when naming templates (enough with one character typed wrong) and give us option to delete them.

Olivia, here is eaxample of 2 custom templates. Maybe it can help your developers for troubleshooting.
First one cannot be deleted/removed in Themler, second one can. Difference in code is, as it seems, first one is missing half of code inside second one. It is nothing I could influence manually, it is Themler making code.

<?php
if (!isset($templates)) $templates = array();
$templates['customTemplate'][] = array('id' => '2', 'ui_title'=> 'Custom Template', 'd6' => 'custom_2', 'd7' => 'custom__2', 'name' => 'referenzen', 'caption' => "Referenzen" );
?>
<?php
if (!isset($templates)) $templates = array();
$templates['customTemplate'][] = array('id' => '6', 'ui_title'=> 'Custom Template', 'd6' => 'custom_6', 'd7' => 'custom__6', 'name' => 'referenzen-content-type', 'caption' => "Referenzen Content Type" , 'custom_name_d6' => 'node_referenzen', 'custom_name_d7' => 'node__referenzen');
?>

Last edited 25 January 2016 by Stagger Lee

Hi,

In general, the main rules in creating Custom template are:

1. the file name should be page-[...].tpl.php. Otherwise Drupal will not be able to see it(!). Everything in [] is not important (for Drupal). You will be able to open this template in Themler in any case. Even if there is no content assigned to it. By default Custom template shows the content of the home page. If you want to associate content type (even if content type itself does not exists) the filename should be: page-node-contenttypename.tpl.php
2. the filename should not contain duplicated word "page".

That's all.

It's difficult to say why the first template wasn't generated properly.
Themler can't load it because it's broken.
You can remove it manually (from basic theme and theme_preview):

1. remove appropriate template files from templates/page andtemplate/html folders.
2. remove this template from templates/templates.php file.
3. clear Drupal cache

Thank you,
Olivia