My department has created customized layouts for different sizes and orientations that should make it easier and speed up the creation of layouts across my organization.
To help the users as much as possible my colleagues and I have tried to prepare almost everything except the goedata.
One of our layouts consist of a Map Frame with attached Map Surrounds and Dynamic Text, different kinds of grids that and a instruction help text box. The user is supposed to add one or serveral of the layouts to an existing project and then connect the layouts Map Frame to an existing Map in the project. The next step is to fill out the Metadata for the Map to populate dynamic text boxes in the layout. Last step is to choose what grids- and graticules to show.
Unfortunately these prepared layouts seem to take a long time to add to a project (they are added directly but it takes maybe 10 minutes for it to show all the stuff in the paper) and use. Maybe there is a better way to make layout templates? Note also that the templates need to work in different versions of Pro. The layouts at the moment are produced in 2.4 but works best in 2.6 and 2.7 and not as great in 2.4 and 2.3. Can the layouts become corrupt?
Any best practices, ideas from the community are very welcome!