Project templates enable you to quickly create projects that share common features and have a number of predefined attributes and options. After you create a new project using a project template, you can customize it to make it unique, if necessary. The Quick Entry feature makes it easy for you to define specific project attributes (such as the project name, project description, or classification) whenever you create a project based on a project template.

You can set up any kind of project as a template, and define different combinations of default project options for each template. You can create a single template for use throughout your organization or a variety of templates to fit different business needs. A project template includes the following elements:

• Basic project information, such as the Operating Unit the template belongs to, the Name, Number, and Description of the project template

• Project structures: financial and workplan

• Agreement and funding (optional)

• Project and task options

• Budgets and forecasts

• Quick Entry fields that specify values that must be defined whenever you create a new project from a template (such as the project name, project number, and start and finish dates)

• Project Option controls that list the project options to display for new projects created from a template

• Controls enabling the display of user-defined attributes for projects and tasks

  Note: In a multi-organization environment, project templates belong to only one operating unit. Project templates can only be maintained and copied within an operating unit. However, project template numbers are unique across operating units. A project template number cannot duplicate any project or project template number within the Oracle Projects installation.