Allow users outside of my organization to use custom Template Gallery templates

[meeplemountain]

I manage a content website and use Google Drive to allow my writing team to manage our content, collaborate on edits, etc. I am the only actual user in my org, everyone else is shared in as editors within a specific folder where our content is stored. I have a template that I'd like my writers to use, but they report they can't see it.

Visiting  Apps > Google Workspace > Drive and Docs > Templates shows that Template Gallery is enabled. But the the help text under the label makes me think that right now only actual "org users" can see templates.

Allow users in your organization to find and use organization-specific templates from the Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms home screens. You can manage individual templates at docs.google.com 

Within our content folder, my users have full editorial access and can add, edit, and delete files and folders. So I trust them, but I want to know if it's possible to extend this template to them.

[meeplemountain]

Anyone? Bueller?

[StephenHind]

@meeplemountain no it's not possible: it's unlikely to get added as it would then allow free users access a Google Workspace premium feature.

Just in case you didn't realise you can change the Google Docs URL by changing the /edit to /copy so it makes a copy rather than opening the editor, but they would then need to move the new file into the folder.

[meeplemountain]

Stephen, thanks for confirming. I suspected that would be the case, but that's disappointing. To be clear I do have a Premium account. I think the problem is that in my case I'm the only one who is actually part of the organization.

Side note, I'm not sure I knew that `/copy` trick, thanks for mentioning it.