Templates¶
A template is a pre-built test script you use as a starting point rather than recording from scratch.
There are two kinds, and they work differently:
| Where it comes from | Who can see it | |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplace templates | Published by our partners on the template marketplace | Available to all elevaite365 customers to install |
| Internal templates | Built by your own team | Private to your instance |
Marketplace templates¶
The template marketplace at templates.elevaite365.com is where partners publish templates for elevaite365 customers to install.
They act as blueprints for quick development: instead of working out how to test a process from a blank test, you install a template that already covers it and adapt it to your configuration.
Many of our ISV partners publish templates for their own products, so if you're running a third-party solution on top of D365, check the marketplace before you build the tests yourself.
To use one: browse the marketplace, install the template, and it becomes available to your instance.
Internal templates¶
Internal templates are your own. They're private to your instance. Nobody outside your organisation can see or install them.
These are the templates that appear in the Template dropdown of the Create Test dialog. If templates exist for the application you're creating a test against, the dropdown appears; if there are none, it doesn't.
Internal templates are worth building when your organisation tests the same shape of process repeatedly: the same approval chain across different modules, or a standard set-up sequence every test in a suite needs.
Template or component?
They solve different problems. A component is a live building block: change it once and every test using it picks up the change on its next run. A template is a starting point: tests created from it are independent copies, and editing the template afterwards doesn't touch them.
Use a component for steps that must stay in sync. Use a template for the shape of a whole test.
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