Preserve your website as a collective Workplace pattern

Collective Workplace patterns can assist you in forming websites with alike structures and enhance your efficiency when creating. You can also utilize them as design reference guides, making it easy for you and your Workplace members to refer to your team’s common design styles.

In this guide, you will understand:

1. How to activate a collective Workplace pattern
2. How to utilize a collective Workplace pattern
3. How to modify a collective Workplace pattern
4. How to deactivate a collective Workplace pattern
5. How to review a summary of your collective Workplace patterns

How to activate a collective Workplace pattern

You can activate collective Workplace patterns for:

• Websites that you generate from scratch
• Other template sites you have incorporated into your Workplace (such as those from the Webflow template marketplace)

Reminder: If you are creating a collective Workplace pattern from a template you purchased, ensure to be mindful of template usage and licenses.

To conserve a site as a collective Workplace pattern:

1. Access the Site settings of the site you wish to transform into a pattern
2. Navigate to General > Collective Workplace pattern
3. Tap Generate pattern
4. Provide a name for your pattern
5. Press Confirm

How to utilize a collective Workplace pattern

Once your site is enabled as a collective Workplace pattern, you can employ that pattern for upcoming sites. To commence a new site using a pattern:

1. Visit your Workplace’s Dashboard
2. Click New site
3. Choose one of your patterns under Collective Workplace patterns
4. Provide a name for your site
5. Select Establish site

How to modify a collective Workplace pattern

To adjust a collective Workplace pattern, you must first deactivate it as a pattern. Then, you can implement your modifications and reactivate the site as a pattern.

How to deactivate a collective Workplace pattern

To deactivate a collective Workplace pattern:

1. Access the Site settings of the site you want to deactivate as a pattern
2. Navigate to General > Collective Workplace pattern
3. Tap Deactivate pattern

Reminder: You cannot erase a collective Workplace pattern without initially deactivating it as a pattern. Follow the steps above to disable your pattern, then you can delete your site.

How to review a summary of your collective Workplace patterns

In Workspace settings, you can observe which sites are patterns in your Workplace, along with when each pattern was established. To review a summary of your collective Workplace patterns:

1. Click the Account dropdown in the navbar
2. Click Workspaces, then select the Workspace from which you want to view the patterns
3. Go to Workspace settings > Templates tab> Collective Workplace patterns