Effective Dates

Effective dates indicate when an object is available for use. If an object will be used indefinitely, you do not need to specify an end date. You can upload additional templates with the same name and give them specific start and end dates as long as the effective dates do not overlap. The version without an end date becomes the default version when none of the other versions' effective dates correspond to the current date.

Effective dates enable a company to have multiple, slightly different versions of the same template. For example, to customize a newsletter with different logos for each month, you can design a master template and upload it to the BI Publisher Object Repository with a start date, but no end date. Then you can create twelve copies of the original template, add a monthly logo to each one, and upload them with the same name as the original template but with different start and end dates for each copy.