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title: "Templates"
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updated: 2025-10-07T09:58:27Z
published: 2025-10-07T11:40:41Z
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# Templates - XML Reports

### General

Every template of a XML Report is a text file that contains constant text and references to [Elements](/release36/docs/introduction-22) which will be replaced by the content of the element during the creation of the report document.

### Properties

Every template has the following properties:

| Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Name | The name of the template. |

### Managing Templates

Templates can me modified by opening the report in the [Report Designer](/release36/docs/report-designer): To create a new template or import an existing XML file as a template, right-click the *Templates* folder in the content explorer and choose *New Template* or *Import Template*. To edit the contents of a template, double-click the template item in the content explorer. To delete an existing template, right-click the template item in the content explorer and click *Delete Template*.

### Single-Template Operation

If the XML Report has only one template, that template will always be used when a report document is created from the report. In that case, the *Template Name(s)* property of the report can be left empty.

### Multi-Template Operation

Mail & Deploy supports multiple templates per XML Report and can merge templates to one large template at runtime.

### Examples

The following [Expression](/release36/docs/introduction-28) returns a single template name from which to create the report document:

          Mail & Deploy Expression

          

"Template1"

When using the following [Expression](/release36/docs/introduction-28), the templates *Template1* and *Template2* will be merged and the report document will be created from the merged templates:

          Mail & Deploy Expression

          

CreateList("Template1", "Template2")