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Designing a Report's Structure: Report Templates

Starting in Strategy One (November 2025), you can create and apply report templates to simplify report creation and ensure consistency among reports.

A report template defines the layout of general categories of information in a report. In a report template, you specify the information that you want to retrieve from your data source and the way that you want the data to display. A report template can also include filter information.

Template Examples

For example, a report template contains prompts to allow users to select the customer-related attributes and metrics to include on the report.

Each user can quickly and easily create their own customized report.

You can create a template that includes formatting. When users select the Corporate template, the resulting formatting meets the design requirements, as shown below, without the user needing to format anything.

A template can contain filtering information. The example below is filtered for the top five revenue-producing customers. It allows you to create a report with any objects you want, but automatically filtered. The template could include objects as well as filters.

You could filter based on time, such as today's date or the last quarter, using transformations or dynamic dates.

For steps to work with templates, see the following:

To create a report template, you must at least have the following privileges:

  • Web save Templates and Filters

  • Write permission for the report file

Once a template is created or an existing report is set as a template, it displays with a template icon . In the image below, Corporate Format and Product Report are both templates, while Sales Prompted by Day is not.

Once a report is set as a template, it displays in the New Report window. In the example below, the out-of-the-box Blank and Report Builder templates are available, as well as the user-created Corporate Format and Product Report templates.

You can still run a template as a report, as well as use it as a template.

Create a Report Template

  1. In the Navigation pane, click next to Reports.

  2. If you are connected to multiple environments, select the environment to create your report in.

  3. If you are connected to multiple projects, select the project to create your report in.

  4. Click Blank Report to immediately open Edit mode.

  5. Create the template. You can do any combination of the following:

    • Add objects directly to the report grid.

    • Add objects to the Report Objects pane so users can choose from a curated selection to display on the grid.

    • Add object prompts to the grid so users can select the objects to display on the grid.

    • Format the report.

    Save the Template

  6. In the toolbar, click Save .

  7. In the Save As box, type the template name.

  8. Navigate to the location to save the template.

  9. Select the Set as Template check box.

  10. Click Save.

Set an Existing Report as a Template

Do one of the following:

  • If you are editing the report, do one of the following:

    • To create a copy of the report as a template with a different name, from the File menu, select Save As. Navigate to the location to save the template. In the Save As box, type the template name. Select the Set as Template check box. Click Save.

    • To save the report as a template, using the same name, from the File menu, choose Set as Template. Save the report template.

  • If you are in the Workstation window, right-click the report and select Set as Template.

Return a Template to a Report

Do one of the following:

  • If you are editing the template, from the File menu, choose Unset as Template.

  • If you are in the Workstation window, right-click the template and select Unset as Template.

Since it is no longer a template, it no longer displays in the New Report window.

Set a Default Template

In Workstation, you can set a template as a the default template. In the project shown below, the Customer Report Template is the default, as indicated by the Default label in the top right corner. It is preselected as the template.

When a project has a default template, you can disable the Blank report template. It no longer displays in the list or as the Blank Report button in the lower left, as shown below.

To set a default report template, you must have the Project Configuration privilege.

  1. Open the Workstation window.
  2. In the Navigation pane, click Projects.

  3. Right-click a project and choose Properties.

  4. In the left pane, click All Settings.

  5. Search for Report Template or scroll to the Default Report Template setting.

  6. Hover your cursor over the Default Report Template setting and click the Browse Folder icon that displays.
  7. In the Select Default Report Template window, select the template to use as the default and click OK.
  8. If the project has a default report template, you can choose to hide the out-of-the-box Blank template. To do so, enable Disable Blank Template.
  9. Click OK.