Based on the last paragraph of this article it seems like
this might not be an option. But as we
are trying to get things setup we think it would be good to have this available.
We are working on setting up different cabinet lines where there are 2 interior options, as well as 2 exterior options that can be combined for 4 different combinations of cabinet interior/exterior. Currently I think we will have 4 different lines of cabinets all with these combinations available. It makes for a lot of template level components as well as specification groups to create and setup.
Exterior: Stain / Paint
Interior: Matching Exterior / Pre-Finished Clear
Our Plan was to setup the template level components (on the right) but then only setup 1 version of the cabinet line as the specification group in the template. Then we would “push” the template components as need to build the correct combination. In doing this we have just noticed that the “unused or non-assigned” template level component files don’t show up when creating a new job. We can manually add them to the job but that doesn’t make sense in our environment.
The
main thing is that the materials and their thicknesses change between the different
line of cabinets. So, setting up 1 or 2 template
level components and then changing materials etc. per job doesn’t make
sense. They are also using multiple of
the different cabinet lines per job; so we would need to copy and create
different “colors” based on the job specs.