Embedded Templates

Feature Requests
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I have certain projects that reoccur on a regular basis and would like to create a template for it. To manage progress in the project, I would like to create some pre-defined tasks alongside the project every time I create a new copy from the template for a project. Right now creating objects in a template makes them their own objects outside of the template.

Describe the solution you’d like

I would like to create a template for a certain type (e.g. a project) that has some pre-defined other objects in it (e.g. some tasks that always occur in a project of this kind).

When I create a new project from the template, I would like to have a set of tasks created along with it.

If you will, I would like to embed a template in another template and have the whole group of objects created when I create a new object from the higher-level template.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

A workaround right now is to add a text list of “tasks to be created” in the project template, but I would prefer this process to be automated.

An alternative is to create a list of tasks as checkboxes inside the project, but then those can’t be handled by sets since they are not objects of the type “task”.

Thanks.

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This is actually a really good feature request as it raises some questions about the core vision for templates, relations and task objects. I’d like to see some discussion about this.

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This is exactly what I was trying to write a feature request for.
I really hope this gets implemented.

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Developers: Please study Tana Super Tags for how to do this really well.

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I will sacrifice one of my votes so that hopefully this starts gaining some traction. :upside_down_face:

I agree with @edferrigan. Tana has by far the best system I encountered so far when it comes to this templates like these and hopefully we can get something similar in AT.

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All of this appears bellow each supertag (AT type) meaning that, for instance, if you want to add or remove a relation from all of your supertags, all you need to do is to open the supertag and change one line in this template. Extremely useful.