Basic Administration > Administering Windchill > Contexts – Distributed and Hierarchical Administration > Context Administrative Items > Templates
  
Templates
Template items identify the templates that provide users with the required information used when creating and processing Windchill objects.
Windchill provides the following types of templates (not all types of templates are available from all Windchill solutions):
Context templates provide the required and optional administrative items that are used to create context. There are five types of context templates:
Product templates define default values and other information, such as team roles and access policies, which are used when an administrator creates a product.
Library templates define default values and other information, such as team roles and access policies, which are used when an administrator creates a library.
Project templates define default values and other information, such as folder structure and team roles, which are used when an administrator creates a project.
Program templates define default values and other information, such as folder structure and team roles, which are used when an administrator creates a program.
Organization templates define default values and other information, such as folder structure and user-defined groups, which are used when an administrator creates an organization context. Each Windchill solution provides a unique set of organization templates.
Document templates provide content files and default values, which are used when users create different types of documents. For example, content might include skeleton documents for memos or reports.
CAD document templates define the content and default values, which are used when users create CAD documents.
Life cycle templates define the phases and gates associated with various business objects when the objects are initialized.
Report templates define default values, which are used when users run reports.
Team templates define default roles, which are used when users populate teams associated with life cycles.
Workflow templates define default values, which are used when users initiate a workflow.
Note templates provide a starting point for creating a note from standardized text that can be associated to parts. Note templates can be modified and attachments can be associated to communicate important information about a part.
Task form templates contain various form fields, such as labels, text fields, and radio buttons. These form fields are place holders to display the attributes of a task like variables, process name and type to the task participant. For more information, see Using Task Form Templates in a Workflow.