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Creating Templates for Targets

You can create targets with settings that you might want to use in other projects in the future. See About Templates, Adding Targets, and Editing Target Settings.

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Let's say you are creating five projects and each one uses multiple targets. Each target is slightly different. Each has a unique file name specified, as well as unique condition tags applied. However, the many other settings in the targets are the same. Rather than specifying the settings independently in each target, you can create one template file with all of the shared settings. Then when you add a new target file to a project, you can select the template that you created so that the vast majority of the settings are already in place.

How to create a template for a target

1. In Flare, go through the steps for adding a target.

   See Adding Targets and Editing Target Settings.

2. Save the file.
3. In Windows Explorer, locate the folder where you stored your Flare project when you first created it.

4. Navigate to the Project\Targets subfolder that is holding the target that you created. The target file has an .fltar extension. Copy that file.

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   Let's say you have created a target named "Products.fltar" in a project that is located here: My Documents\My Projects\TheBigProject. In this case, you would find the target file here: My Documents\My Projects\TheBigProject\Project\Targets\Products.fltar. This is the file that you would copy.

5. In the My Documents folder on your computer (not in the Flare project), create a subfolder and name it My Templates (if it does not already exist).

   This subfolder will be used to hold all of the different templates that you create in Flare projects, as well as templates for other MadCap Software applications.

   Note: In Vista, the folder is called "Documents" instead of "My Documents."

6. In the My Templates folder, create a subfolder and name it Targets.

7. Paste your new target template file in that subfolder.

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   Using the same example from above, you would copy the following target template file: My Documents\My Projects\TheBigProject\Project\Targets\Products.fltar. And you would paste it here: My Documents\My Templates\Targets\.

   The next time you attempt to add a new target, you can select My Templates in the dialog to display (and select) any target template files that you've created.

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