[DevExpress Support Team: CLONED FROM T439521: Enabling/disabling code templates is a slow, frustrating experience]
The second issue is with System templates. A system template, to me, is a template that is really designed to be used by other templates. In the default templates they tend to start with #. System templates are mixed in with other templates. There is a System folder for some system templates but most system templates tend to be nested under subfolders. System templates seem to be used heavily by other templates so disabling a system template breaks templates that may not even be in the same folder. As an example, if I want to create a custom template that generates a specific property I'm going to rely on the system template #ReadWritePropertyRouter#. I tend to not use any of the default property templates so I would normally disable the entire Properties folder. But that would disable the system and generic system templates. So, because of the issue mentioned earlier, I'd have to enable the Properties templates and then navigate each of the child folders and ensure the Generics\System and System folders are enabled but the remaining templates are not. Ideally all templates that are designed to be used by other templates (i.e. the # system templates) should be contained under the root System folder (in child folders for organization). I could then ensure that System root is enabled and disable the other folders. This would also force me, as a template creator, to consider whether I should depend upon other templates beyond the system templates that are designed for reuse.
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Hi Michael,
Thank you for your idea. We agreed that templates that are designed to be used by other templates should not be disabled.
Actually there are several ways to correct this. Templates can be placed into a separate folder, or we can exclude the "Enable" property for such templates. We will discuss what approach is better and consider making these changes in the future.