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The Manage templates overlay

The Manage templates overlay is where your team's templates live. It lists the templates, the sessions opened against each one, and the documents those sessions have produced.

Opening and closing

Select Templates in the action bar. The button is present on every page except Settings, and the overlay opens over whatever page you are on.

The overlay keeps its state when you close it and open it again: the template you had selected, the filters you had set, and the sort you had chosen are all still in place.

The two regions

The overlay is a drill-down in two regions.

Region Contents
Templates The team's templates, one per row. Selecting a row expands a Sessions list beneath it.
Documents produced from selected template Every document produced from the selected template. The region appears only once a template is selected.

Selecting a template fills the lower region with everything produced from that template. Selecting a single session in the Sessions list narrows the lower region further, to the documents that session produced.

Columns

Column Shows
Name The template's name. A Draft badge appears while the template's fields are still being placed.
Description The template's description.
No. sessions How many sessions have been opened against the template.
Produces The documents the template produces from one submission.
Created When the template was created.
Status The template's readiness: a spinner while it is being prepared, a green tick once it is ready.
Total drafts produced How many drafts the template has produced. Hidden by default; turn it on from the Columns menu.

Name and Description can be edited in place, using the pencil on the cell.

Toolbar

Control Effect
Create template Opens the window for adding a template, by import or from your own Word documents.
Table / Cards Switches between the table view and the cards view.
Columns Shows or hides individual columns.
Show team templates Shows or hides the team's templates.
Show team sessions Shows or hides other team members' sessions, adding an Owner column to the Sessions list.
Hide completed sessions Hides sessions whose status is Submitted.
Show superseded templates On by default. Turn it off to hide superseded templates from the table. They remain visible in the picker used when creating a document from a template.
Collapse Collapses the templates table.

Filtering and sorting

Filter inputs are available on Name and Description. Every column can be sorted.

Superseded templates sink to the bottom of the table in the default order. An explicit column sort overrides that.

Row actions

Action What it does When it is available
Create session (+) Starts a new session, or offers to resume one already in progress. Hidden while the template is still a draft.
Edit template (pencil) Opens the template editor. Disabled until the template's status is ready.
Export template Downloads a portable copy of the template. Disabled until the template's status is ready.
Import new version Replaces the template's contents from an exported file. Disabled until the template's status is ready.
Mark as superseded Flags the template as out of date, with a reason and an optional replacement. The template's owner or a team administrator only.
Delete template Deletes the template.