The Presentation Template Node
The Presentation Template node () contains settings relevant for generating the template as well as the template settings matching the settings available in the main Presentation node described in the next section. The corresponding settings for all other presentation nodes that can appear when generating a presentation are made in their respective template node versions; see The Title Slide and the sections listed under Model Contents — Report Components.
The template versions of the regular presentation nodes are restricted to settings that can be meaningfully included in a template. They therefore differ slightly from their regular presentation counterparts. Specifically, settings in the latter that refer to instances of model presentations or model nodes are either not present or replaced by single checkboxes where you specify whether to include or exclude nodes of the corresponding types.
Use the Label text field to give your template a descriptive name. This helps you to find the right template to use when generating presentations.
Presentation Template
In the Presentation Template section, choose the initial level — Standard or Detailed — from the Use initial settings for level list before you click Generate () to generate the template tree. This setting also applies if you build the template node by node. In this section you also choose how nodes that are disabled or not present in the template are interpreted when the template is used for generating a model presentation. By default, nodes of the same type — for example Material or Solver — are not added to the presentation.
If you change Default state for deleted or disabled nodes to Include, disabled and absent nodes will be included when generating a presentation with the settings for the chosen initial level. (Note that the Exclude setting in the template does not prevent you from manually adding any type of node to a presentation after it has been generated.)
The Generate automatically checkbox (selected by default) controls if a presentation created from the template is generated immediately after creation. If you clear this checkbox, presentations based on the template will inherit the template’s settings for the root node but otherwise be empty. Any nodes you add subsequently, either manually or by clicking Generate, will use the settings defined in the template.
File, Images, Slide Layouts, and Number Format
In these sections, you can specify the template’s initial values for the presentation-level settings described for the Presentation node below.