Create virtual spaces that truly represent your brand with Vatom's custom templates. Design, save, and reuse your themes to ensure consistency and control. With powerful lock settings, you can secure your designs, keeping your identity intact while making it easy to launch new spaces, events and experiences.

Throughout this article we use the terms Themes and Templates interchangeably.

Jump Ahead:

1. Creating a Template
2. Template Locks & Settings
3. Publishing a Template
4. Updating your Template
5. Using a Template

Creating a Template

Admins with the Template Designer user role have additional settings in their Admin Toolbar, and can Publish customized spaces as "Templates".

Name and Description

The three pieces of information required for a Template are:

1. Title
2. Short Description
3. Preview Image (jpg or png under 2mb)

Once these are added, the space can be published as a Template.

Template Locks & Settings

Control the experience for Admins within your space. For instance, if you plan to hold events and would not like Admins to edit the scene 

Templates can have a number of restrictions, in order to prevent Space Admins from modifying certain aspects of the space once the template is installed. 

Lock Settings

Lock and hide the File > Settings menu

Lock Editor

Lock and hide the Editor in the top Admin toolbar

Lock Editor: Scene tab

Lock and hide the Scene tab of the Editor.

Lock Editor: World tab

Lock and hide the World tab of the Editor

Customize locked fields

Lock individual objects and settings. With this enabled, an additional set of lock options is added to the editor, to the right of every setting in the Scene Editor.

If you would like to lock an entire object, enable the "Locked" setting and then lock the setting field.

Prevent adding objects

Prevent Space Admins from adding new objects to the scene. This hides the Insert menu from the Admin Toolbar and the Scene Editor.

Prevent customizing plugins

Prevent Space Admins from customizing the Plugins installed in the space. This will hide the Plugins menu from the top Admin Toolbar.

Prevent removing template plugins

Prevent Space Admins from removing plugins that are installed in the space.

Publishing a Template

Once your space is configured and the Template Settings are as you would like, press Publish in the Admin Toolbar. 

When a space is published, guests can no longer visit the space and any custom @handle set will be lost. You will need to create a New Space using the newly created template.

Managing Templates

In Vatom Studio, click the expand icon next to Spaces and select Templates. 

Your list of published templates will be listed here. Click on the template listing card to open the Template Settings. 

Here you can edit the template Title, Description and Preview Image, as well as seeing the previous versions in order to return and make updates.

Updating your Template

Once your template is published, the interface displays the current Version Number and the option to create a New Draft in the top Admin Toolbar. 

The template and template settings can no longer be edited without creating a new version. 

Customize Lock Fields

With the Customize Lock Fields setting enabled, each and every setting and component can be locked individually. 

For instance, if a designer would like to allow Space Admins to access the editor but not make adjustments to specific objects they can lock down the individual object or setting configurations. 

To lock an entire object from adjustment, check the "Locked" field and then lock the setting in Template Designer.

Using a Template

Once a Space is published as a Template, it is no longer a Space. Your Space License will be restored and available to create a new Space from your template.

When creating a New Space under Vatom Studio > Spaces > Create New Space, published custom themes are located in the "Select Theme" menu. You will see one tab for Your Business templates and a second for our default Vatom templates.