Whenever somebody creates a new project, Calpendo first creates a copy of a project, referred to as the template project. It doesn't have to be a special project that is used as the template, but it's generally appropriate that the template project is not used for booking resources, since real projects usually have lots of information stored in them which is not on the template. For this reason, the template project is normally assigned a status of Unbookable so that nobody can create a booking that references it.

 

Choose which project is used as a template using the Global Preferences setting for the template project.

 

Note that, although properties from the template project are copied when creating a new project, some properties are modified. These are:

 

Property

Description

Name

This is always reset to Unique project name.

Owner

This is changed to the current user.

Users

The current user is added to the list of users.

Status

The status is changed to Requested.

Project Code

This is set to be empty.

 

The template project ignores the need for values to be input for all properties that are set up to have required values.