Templates control all of the content viewed through your Granicus solution. Templates are created by Granicus staff and are designed to replicate your municipality’s website and document format by using the same graphics, navigation, and style elements.
 

Note: To edit your template you will need some knowledge of HTML; you should have an understanding of how to read and make minor modifications to HTML code.

Types of Templates

There are four types of templates used within Granicus solutions:  View, Video Player, Agenda, and Minutes.

The View Template

The view template creates view pages that display municipalities’ past archives and upcoming and current events. Each event and archive can be displayed with data such as the name, date and duration, and agenda and minutes documents. The view template also supports a search function. Using keywords, the search function returns results from the content in the view page. Content searched includes information captured in the Granicus system: name, date, keywords, archive description, agenda items, motions, votes, notes, and captions. View Templates can be customized using the View Template Designer.

The Video Player Template

In an effort to enhance citizens’ experience with your content, Granicus has created the video player. The player features an improved look and heightened usability, allowing citizens to enjoy live and archived media and agenda and minutes documents.
New features of the player include the following:

  • High quality viewing
  • Aspect Ratio capabilities
  • Embedding features
  • Customized player settings
  • One-click social networking tools
  • One-click Microsoft Silverlight download


To give you greater control over your streaming and archived content, the Integrated Public Record features customized settings. These settings allow you to enable closed captioning, high definition viewing, and numerous other features.

The Agenda Template

Note: Support for the agenda template requires the Government Transparency suite. If you are interested in learning more about this feature, please contact your account manager.


The agenda template controls how your MediaManager data is displayed on your published agenda document. The agenda template uses a combination of Smarty tags (to pull data from MediaManager), HTML (to control the layout of the agenda document), and CSS (to add styling and enhance the look of the agenda).

The Minutes Template

Note: Support for the minutes template requires the Meeting Efficiency suite. If you are interested in learning more about this feature, please contact your account manager.


The minutes template controls how your MediaManager data is displayed on your published minutes document. The minutes template uses a combination of Smarty tags (to pull data from MediaManager), HTML (to control the layout of the minutes document), and CSS (to add styling and enhance the look of the minutes).