Enforce branding guidelines with locked templates

Learn how to lock templates to ensure brand elements remain consistent across publications

Table of contents

• Overview
• Enable the enforced lock option
• Accessing the locking feature
• How to lock elements in a template
• Saving your locked template
• Next steps

Overview

Locking templates in Flipsnack allows businesses to protect their design structure and enforce brand consistency. By locking text boxes, images, and other elements, companies can prevent unauthorized edits and ensure their templates remain visually aligned with brand guidelines.

Key benefits

• Maintain consistency: Prevent unapproved changes and preserve a unified look.

• Protect key elements: Make sure important parts of your layout stay intact.

• Save time: Reuse locked templates to speed up the design process.

• Control editing: Choose which elements can be edited and which stay locked.

Enable the enforced lock option

Before you can save a locked template for your team, you must enable the enforced lock settings in your workspace.

Follow these steps:

1. Go to Settings > Permission settings.

2. For each teammate role where you want to enforce locked templates:

   • Check the box for Enforced lock on templates.

   • Also check Allow elements to be unlocked.

3. Click Save changes.

Accessing the locking feature

Once the setting is enabled, you can begin using the locking functionality within the Design Studio. This allows you to lock individual elements before saving your template.

How to lock elements in a template

1. Open your flipbook in Design Studio.

2. Select the element you want to lock (e.g., a logo, header, or text box).

3. In the top toolbar, click the lock icon.

4. Enable any or all of the following options, depending on what you want to restrict:

   • Lock position: Prevents the element from being moved and disables resize options.

   • Lock style: Prevents styling changes like fonts or colors.

   • Lock content: Prevents changes to the content.

Tip: You can lock individual elements or select multiple objects and apply the lock in one step. 

The elements will now be marked as locked and cannot be edited by others unless unlocked. 

Saving your locked template

1. Once you’ve locked all necessary elements, click File > Save as template.

2. Give your template a name and confirm the save.

Your teammates will now be able to use the template, but locked elements will remain uneditable unless their role allows unlocking.

Next steps

Explore related guides

• How to create and manage templates in Flipsnack
• How to maintain brand consistency across flipbooks
• How to share templates with your team

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