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Enforce branding guidelines with locked templates

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

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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.

Requirements:
Plan: Available for Business, Team and Enterprise plans.

Enable the enforced lock option

Before saving a locked template for your team, you must first enable enforced lock settings at the workspace level. Choose which user roles are allowed to lock elements in templates. 

Warning: If this setting isn’t enabled, the option to enforce locked elements will not appear when you save the template.

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.

  3. Click Save changes.

Check the box for Enforced lock on templates

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 or template 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. 

How to lock elements in a template

 

Saving your locked template

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

Save as template

  • Give your template a name, check the Enforce locked elements checkbox. and click save

Enforce locked elements

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

Next steps

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