This plugin allows you to specify that a view may only contain certain item types. To use it, when creating a new view, pick Restrict what can be created in this view from the Add Job Filter pulldown. Then you can select a list of item types; only items of those types will be permitted to be added to the view via the New Item menu.

While these types might be built-in types such as Freestyle project, you will also see your own job templates listed as choices.

You may also want to use the Template Type Filter to add all instances of a given template by default. Currently you cannot prevent other kinds of items from being added via the Jobs checkbox list; RM-2159 requests this.

This plugin provides a Groovy Script View you can select when creating a new view in a Jenkins folder or at top level. It allows you to generate any content you like in the view (subject to the limitations of the system’s configured markup language).

To create interesting content, you can refer to the folder as ${it} and calculate some contents. But when used with a templatized folder, you can also use ${instance} to the refer to the template instance, from which you can get the values of template attributes. This is useful since your folder template can predefine a Groovy script view which generates a dynamic view according to both the current contents of the folder and its templatized configuration.