I have members to my site that I have specific templates for, but I also want them to be able to choose from the "public" templates I have available. If they are just a normal user that does not have a customized template, I only want them to be able to see the "public" templates.

How can I do this?

User A (has custom template) = Should be able to choose his custom template and public templates.

User B (no custom template) = Only public templates visible in when creating from frontend.

For user A, you can setup JMS to have a specific custom "/templates" directory as explained in the tutorial video CP-05
www.jms2win.com/en/tutorial#jms12x-CP-05

For User B, is you can share the templates directory with Symbolic Links.
In Joomla 1.5, the joomla templates will automatically available.
In Joomla 1.6 or higher, joomla now require to use the "discover" function in the "extension manager" to discover the template in the slave sites.

Sorry Edwin but that video tutorial is not at ALL what I was describing.

This needs to be from the FRONT-END. Certain users need to be able to select different template as I've described. Your tutorial video was for manually putting in a different templates folder in the slave site creation process from the back. It's very hard to understand as well.

I think I explained it pretty clearly what I was looking for but this is so off the mark. Do you have any front-end solution? Automatic solution? Or do I need to hack the component to do it?

Buddy

Do you want to have the same thing as in www.mywebsite2win.com that propose the possibility to create websites with different looks.

In this case, you have to prepare as many JMS Template for each Joomla template and let your customer select the package that they want.

If you want that your customers have their own joomla templates and be able to install their own joomla template then this is the video CP-05 where you specify that you want to "copy" the /templates directory and that you want the "template folder" = {deploy_dir}/templates

Do you want to have the same thing as in www.mywebsite2win.com that propose the possibility to create websites with different looks.

Yes, I know how to put multiple templates in the group that is for the front-end. For example, your mywebsite2win site allows me to choose from 3 templates. Fine. I'm just a regular public user, so that is showing all the public group templates. But I also have clients that have their very OWN templates that the "public" cannot use. The public should NOT see templates they are NOT allowed to see.

So a public user should ONLY see public templates, userB (who has his OWN template) should see all public AND his OWN.

Make sense?

I don't understand how in the front-end you can distinguish the users.

If you an anonymous user you can for example display a menu that display a "public template" group.
When you are a registered user display a menu item that filter on "member template".

When you mention that a user has its own joomla template, for mean, that mean that he has purchased somewhere the Joomla installation package to install its own joomla template in the back-end of his website.