Categories & collections
Learn how to repurpose the folder list on your dashboard to create categories and collections of templates. Discover how to organize individual templates into categories and group multiple automations into collections for easy installation. Find out how t
The folder list on the left side of the dashboard is repurposed to represent categories and collections of templates.
Individual templates consisting of a single automation can be placed into a category that can be searched in the Templates catalog:
A collection is a single template that consists of multiple automations that can be installed as a single group:
To define a template collection, create a folder with a name that starts with "Collection: ":
Then place the automations comprising the collection into the folder:
In the Templates catalog the catalog entry is defined by a placeholder automation in the collection whose name begins with "Collection: ":
This automation only serves the purpose of being the one whose name appears in the catalog and whose catalog description appears here:
Observe that the name above comes from the name of #12157 and that the description above comes from that placeholder's catalog description:
The placeholder is not installed with the collection.
In order to create the placeholder template, build an automation consisting of a no-op trigger and any action. Whatever is build doesn't matter, since the implementation is never installed or used.