ATG BCC | Disable(hide) Promotion Template in template selection screen

Sometimes business is not utilizing all the available promotion templates in BCC. So it is better to hide these non-required templates in template selection screen in BCC.

Here are the steps : 

1. Copy pmdt file for promotion to disable in \atg\registry\data\promotiontemplates\item directory of "Versioned" module of your application.You can find existing templates at DCS\config\config.jar\config\atg\registry\atg\registry\data\promotiontemplates.

2. Add available-in-ui="false" attribute in ui-description tag of pmdt.

3. Rebuild and Redeploy the BCC ear. Now this template won't be available in template selection screen.

In below pmdt  SpendY GetGiftWithPurchase promotion is disabled.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE template PUBLIC "-//Art Technology Group, Inc.//DTD PMDT 1.0//EN" "http://www.atg.com/dtds/pmdt/pmdt_1.0.dtd">
<template item-type="Item Discount"
                    author="Sean McIntyre"
                    last-modified-by="Sean McIntyre"
                    creation-date="11/02/2011">
  <ui-description display-name-resource="template.gwp.spendYGetGiftWithPurchase.title" 
             resource-bundle="atg.remote.promotion.template.Resources" available-in-ui="false">
  </ui-description>
 </template>
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