Making and Updating Templates

Whenever you make changes to your resources and want to reuse them in the future, you can save the resources as a template. When doing so, you can choose to save using an existing template name or by providing a new name. Then, whenever you load this template in the future, you'll be able to obtain the same resources. See the topic Copying resources from templates and TAPs for more information.

Note: You can also publish and share your libraries. See the topic Sharing Libraries for more information.

To Make (or Update) a Template

1. From the menus in the Resource Editor view, choose Resources > Make Resource Template. The Make Resource Template dialog box opens.
2. Enter a new name in the Template Name field, if you want to make a new template. Select a template in the table, if you want to overwrite an existing template with the currently loaded resources.
3. Click Save to make the template.

Important! Since templates are loaded when you select them in the node and not when the stream is executed, please make sure to reload the resource template in any other nodes in which it is used if you want to get the latest changes. See the topic Updating Node Resources After Loading for more information.