Enabling templates

Complete this task to enable the functionality to create documents of a specified document type from templates.

Templates are documents that are pre-populated with attribute values and a file. The template functionality in IDM is based on these attributes:

  • MDS_TemplateName
  • MDS_TemplateDetails

To enable the template functionality:

  1. Add the MDS_TemplateName and MDS_TemplateDetails attributes as described in Creating an attribute.
  2. Set the Attribute Type of each attribute to string.
  3. Set the maximum length of MDS_TemplateName to 128 characters and the maximum length of MDS_TemplateDetails to 512 characters.