What are templates for?

Using the templates supplied or those you create yourself will enable you to easily customize your models according to your requirements. You can specify that certain or all objects and/or connections in a model are shown in the style you want simply by assigning templates. You can also use a template to specify that attributes are to be placed in certain positions on objects and connections.

Moreover, you can assign multiple templates to models. This means that you can assign a template to a model to change the size of objects, for example, and another that places the required attributes. Based on this possibility, it can be very useful to create templates for specific model types, which can also be applied to other model types, for example.

Example

You can create a template for EPCs to modify events, functions, and rules graphically, and another to graphically adapt the objects of the organizational chart. If you now apply both of these templates one after the other to an EPC in which organizational units are modeled as well as events, functions, and rules, all the objects will be displayed in accordance with the graphical modifications.

Assigning multiple templates is possible for existing objects only. If you create new objects, only the template you assigned last will be applied to them.

You can also apply templates to individual items of a model and specify that only existing model items or only future model items are to be changed and that all changes that are made by templates can be reversed.

See also

What are templates?

Assign a template to a model

Assign multiple templates to a model

Assign a template to multiple models

Assign a template to individual model items

Assign a template to a model type

Restore the default for individual model items

Restore model defaults