Main issue: In the Envy theme (trial), the merchant cannot assign a template to collections; the template dropdown in the Shopify admin is disabled.
Key context: The theme has not been published yet. Screenshots show the disabled template selector.
Advice given: A responder indicates templates become selectable when the theme is published (i.e., “publish the theme code” to make templates available for selection).
Open question: The merchant asks whether the theme must be purchased to publish it. This was not directly answered; only the need to publish was reiterated.
Status/outcome: Partially resolved. Next action is to publish the theme so collection templates can be assigned. Unclear from the thread whether purchasing is required to publish the paid theme while on trial.
For context, my client hasn’t purchased the theme yet and we’re editing via theme trial.
When I go to edit the site, choosing a template does nothing, as I am unable to assign templates to her collections from the backend. The dropdown menu is disabled and I can’t click it. How do I enable it?
Hi @lmnl
In this case have you publish the theme?
as the second image you shared, the template should available to choose the template.
Thanks for your response. No, we haven’t published the theme yet. Do you need to purchase the theme to publish it?
Hi @lmnl
You need to publish the theme code to make the template available to choose
