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Customize the report template

A meeting template controls what prints on the compte rendu and what prose surrounds it. It does not reshape the register — the point table is the document.

Required role: Project Manager. Template management is manager-only.

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You don't need a template. A project with no template publishes perfectly well with every block on. Create one only to change what prints.

Create a template

  1. Open the project's Meeting reports area and go to the Templates tab.
  2. Create a template and give it a name.
  3. Toggle the optional blocks (below).
  4. Add your own sections if you need them.
  5. Optionally set an accent color and footer text.
  6. Mark it as the project default if it should apply to new meetings.

Result: the template is available when you open a meeting. A project can have one default template at a time.

Blocks you can toggle

BlockWhat it prints
StakeholdersThe project's stakeholders
ContractorsThe company roster
StatisticsCounts across the register
ProgressThe progress table
BlockingPoints that are urgent and overdue
Closed sinceWhat closed since the previous meeting
Next meetingDate, location and agenda for the next one

Your own sections

You can add sections of two kinds, and only two:

  • Rich text — a block of prose.
  • Table — rows you enter.

Each section has a title, a position in the order, and an on/off switch.

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Two section types, deliberately. A wider set of blocks turns the report into a page builder, and the document stops being predictable for the people who have to read it every week.

Per-meeting overrides

A template holds what's true every week. Anything that's true for one week is set on the meeting itself — open the meeting and edit the section there.

The classic case is a headcount table: the structure belongs to the template, this week's numbers belong to this week's report.

Choosing the template for a meeting

When you open a meeting, it uses the project default. You can point an individual meeting at a different template instead.