Templates Tab  

Use

You manage your templates in this tab. You release finished templates, and transport them. You create new versions of templates, and archive old versions.

Integration

By default, templates which you are editing are invisible system-wide. To make a template visible system-wide, change its visibility to Public. You can put a public template in the scope of any project, system-wide.

Prerequisites

You are in vour template project in the Project Administration.

Features

Create and change templates

You create new templates and change existing ones with pushbuttons.

Supporting global rollout

If you activate the global rollout functionality, you can lock your templates completely or partially against changes in the subsidiaries, in the Business Blueprint.

For further information, see Global rollout with a Template in the Define Template in the Company Headquarters section.

Publish a template

You publish a completed template system-wide with the Change Visibility pushbutton.

If you change the visibility of a template from Private to Public, the system updates the system landscape data of the template. The template is visible system-wide in the Scope tab in the Project Administration. The visibility status is displayed by an icon in the Templates tab.

Transport

You transport the template with the Deliver pushbutton using the template collector.

The template collector leads you through the template transport steps. Choose an existing transport request of type Transport Copies in the template collector, or create a new one. Release this transport request in the Transport Organizer.

Create a new version

You create a new version of a public template with the Increase Version Counter pushbutton, to preserve the status of the old template and proceed with the new version.

Archiving

When you create a new version of a template, you can archive the old version, to be able to compare different versions later.

Display job log

You can call the logs of the release background jobs (template_ship) and archiving (template_archive) with the Call Job Log pushbutton.

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Result

You have released your template for reuse. You can now reuse the template in the same Solution Manager system, transport it in your system landscape, or deliver it to your subsidiaries, to harmonize processes, customizing and other system settings company-wide.

See also:

Global Rollout with a Template