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Product Administration Guide > Customizable Product Rule Designer > Creating a Rule TemplateWhen you create and save a rule, the rule becomes part of the customizable product. The rule is not visible in other customizable products. When you create and save a rule as a template, it is added to the list of templates. The list of templates is visible in all customizable products. Create templates for those rules that you will use with several customizable products. Templates that refer to items in one customizable product cannot be used to refer to items in another customizable product. Items include products, relationships, links, links and resources. For example, you write the following rule for customizable product CP1and save the rule as a template called A Requires B: You also have customizable product CP2, that includes Product A and Product B. You want to write the same rule for CP2. If you use the template A Requires B in CP2, you will receive a validation error when you validate CP2. This is because each item in a customizable product receives a unique item ID. This item ID is what the system stores as the item name when you create a rule or a rule template in a customizable product. This ID is not transferable to other customizable products. Since rule templates can be used across all customizable products, rule templates cannot be edited or deleted.
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