If you have the appropriate UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer Server Administration access permissions, you can create a template table document (.mtd) file that defines default settings for all table documents that users of the project create. For example, you may want the cell contents for all tables to contain only counts and to be filtered on a specific variable, or you may want to set up a number of tables and specify different cell contents and filters for each one.

Template table documents are specific to a project. When a template document exists for a project, new table documents created by any user of that project contain all the information that is in the template.

To install a template table document, you create a table document file called template.mtd and save it in the shared folder for a project. The template file can contain settings for individual tables or default settings that will apply to all tables created. It can also contain table definitions and filters, and it can even include results in table or chart format.

There can be only one template document per project. The template document must be called template.mtd and must be checked into the shared folder for the project. All users who have access to the project will automatically see the template document settings in any new table documents that they create, though they can then modify their table documents as they want. Any table documents that were created before the template was installed in the shared folder are not affected by the settings in the template.

If the template file is subsequently modified, existing user documents are not affected; only new table documents will contain the changes made to the template file.

You can create a template document in UNICOM Intelligence Reporter - Survey Tabulation, or you can use UNICOM Intelligence Reporter to generate a template file using a script. For information on creating .mtd files using a script, see “Table scripting” in the UNICOM Intelligence Developer Documentation Library.