Templates make it easy to create recurring content that follows the same format every time. If your organization regularly creates content such as devotionals, children's ministry curriculum, group leader guides, or weekly newsletters, you can create a template once and reuse it week after week.
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Templates let you define the layout and type of content you want to generate, so you don't have to rebuild the same structure each time you upload a new project.
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From your Home dashboard:

Select Templates from the left-hand menu (you'll see our pre-made templates)

Once open, you will see all templates associated with your account. The sort tool at the top allows you to see only your custom templates, native templates provided by Content Studio, or All. Select

You can get to a template editing menu by selecting the 3 dots visible on each template card. From this page you can also hover your mouse over a template and a star will appear; highlight the star to select this template as a favorite.
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From that edit menu, there are several options such as Make Private, Duplicate, or Delete. You can use this menu to make quick edits to your custom template.
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To create a new template:

Code Blocks are the individual pieces of content that make up your template - they're sort of like the building blocks of your page layout. When you apply a template to a project, each Code Block uses its embedded prompt to generate content based on your uploaded sermon or other source material.

For example, a weekly teen devotional might include:

Add the Code Blocks to your template from the right hand menu by clicking and dragging them into your page where you want them. Be sure to move them into the order you want them to appear. That order will be preserved every time the template is used.
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You can also:

Templates automatically save as you make changes.

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You can also add variables to your template, such as:

These can be placed wherever you want them to appear in the template. For example, you might place your organization name and logo at the top of a page and your website underneath them. You can select these variable code blocks by selecting the variables menu and dragging the items into your page where you want them to generate.
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Variables that insert Organizational Information draw from the information that you've input into your Organization's settings page. You can edit that information and add your logo, website, etc. by going to Settings > General and then updating the information.
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Additionally, you can use your own saved prompts as Code Blocks within a template.
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This is useful if you've already created custom prompts in the AI Chat or migrated prompts from your Prompt Library that you'd like to incorporate into a recurring workflow.
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To add a custom prompt Code Block:

Your custom prompt will now appear in your Code Blocks and can be added to any template.
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Once you've created a custom Code Block (or added an existing prompt to your dynamic content), simply drag it into your template and place it wherever you want it to appear.

Your custom prompt can be one small section of a larger template—or it can contain the instructions for an entire page of content.
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For example, you could create a custom prompt for a Teen Devotional and use it as a single Code Block for your entire template. Or a Discussion Prompts for Teens can be a code block that you use within a larger template with additional content.

If there's a template you plan to use regularly, you can add it to your favorites by highlighting the star icon from the main templates dashboard. Simply hover your mouse over the template card and a star will appear. Click the star to highlight it as a favorite. You can unhighlight it if you want to deselect it as a favorite.

Favorited templates are easier to access and will automatically generate when you upload a new project. You'll also be able to access them as a quick one-click option from the written content Actions area of your project.

This is especially useful for content you generate on a recurring basis.

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Once you've created and saved your template, you can reuse it whenever you upload a new project.

When the template is applied, its Code Blocks will generate content from your new upload while maintaining the same structure and layout you've defined.

This means you can create a template once and use it repeatedly without having to recreate the format every week.