ART Template Editor
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Template Editor Overview
Starting the template editor is done from the ART Template Viewer or the ART Template Associations forms. From those forms you either start a completely new template, create a new version of an existing template, or edit a template. These options are handed as parameters to the Template Editor.
You can only work with the template editor if you are a project author.
Creating a new template
Click the + button in the Template Viewer. The template editor will open and present you with a dialog with prototypes to base your new template on. These are taken from the building block repositories in the project.
The prototypes are alphabetically ordered and grouped by classification. For all templates you may inspect the meta data. Click the prototype you need e.g. CDA Section and click the Select button.
From here, editing follows the same pattern as editing an existing template using the rules for a specialization of a template based on that prototype. See #Editing a template
Creating a new version of an existing template
When a template has reached the status 'Active', you can no longer alter it. What you can do is create a new version of it. The Template Viewer will present you with a choice when you click the Edit button on an active template
When you choose new version with the same id, it means that any dynamic binding to the selected template will now point to this new version. When you choose new version with different id, no existing bindings to templates are affected.
The Template Editor opens. From here, editing follows the same pattern as editing an existing template using the rules for an adaptation of a template based on that prototype. See #Editing a template
Editing a template
The template is one potentially long page that allows editing the meta data (name, display name, description, classification, reference, etc.) and the core (example, elements, attributes, choices, includes and their properties).
Saving the template currently closes the Template Editor so intermediate saving and continue work is not possible. However: ART locks the template while you are working on it if you are editing an existing template.
Most of the meta data editing is filling out text and selecting options from the drop down menus. When you get to the core of the template you'll notice an action button to the far right with context sensitive options. When you working on a specialization for example, you will not get the option of creating new elements that are now part of the prototype. On datatypes you get to option to add attributes/elements that are part of that particular datatype.
If a certain datatype is specializable into another datatypes or flavor thereof you may select this from the datatype drop menu. In the screenshot, there is a flavor TEL.AT (Austria) and a flavor TEL.EU.EPSOS for the main datatype TEL.
