How to get template drop down menu in page-attributes of custom post type?

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When I register my custom post type, I set this: 

'hierarchical'   => true,
'supports'       => array( 'title','author', 'page-attributes' ),

So, I am supose to see ‘order’, ‘templates’, ‘parents’ in Attributes box when create new post. But, I don’t see the ‘templates’ drop down showing up.
Anything else I should do to enable the choice of ‘templates’ ?

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  2. Well, as of WordPress 4.7 custom templates are also available to custom post types, when defining a template, below the name of the template add another line like (where ‘product’ is your custom post type):

    <?php
/*
Template Name: My custom layout
Template Post Type: post, page, product
*/

// your code here

    and remember to add ‘page-attributes’ when registering your custom post type:

    'supports' => array('title', 'page-attributes'),

    to display the “Post attributes” box.

  3. With my theme, I provide “virtual” templates. There are no specific {template}.php files in my theme, so I filtered the PAGE templates like so:

    function my_virtual_templates( $templates ) {

    $my_virtual_templates = array(
        'virtual_template_id_1' => 'Template 1',
        'virtual_template_id_2' => 'Template 2',
        'virtual_template_id_3' => 'Template 3'
    );

    // Merge with any templates already available
    $templates = array_merge( $templates, $my_virtual_templates );

    return $templates;
}

add_filter( 'theme_page_templates', 'my_virtual_templates' );

    I was looking for a “simple” way to add the actual post meta box on a Custom Post Type (CPT) when I came across this post. Since my new CPT will use this same array of “virtual” templates, I just needed to get a post meta box in place.

    Using the theme_{$post_type}_templates It automatically creates this post meta box area for me. So where my CPT is called my_cpt I added the filter like so:

    add_filter( 'theme_my_cpt_templates', 'my_virtual_templates');

    Now, the meta box and selector shows up, and I can even change on the bulk edit screen since this is all built in. Very handy!

  4. just create any template file and set in header of template this:

    /*
Template Name: Some Name
Template Post Type: your_type, page
*/

    then template selector appears in ‘Post Attributes’