Visibility, Rules, and Variables

While defining a project template, you define its visibility, rules, and variables.

Visibility

Visibility defines who can access the template.

Type	Description
Draft	The project template is under design and isn’t available in the Templates page of the Create Project wizard. No user can copy data from a draft template.
Private	The project template is published and available to organization’s users, but isn’t visible by name to all. It’s visible by name to members of the project template. A non-member user can access the template using the project template’s private key and can copy data.
Shared	The project template is published and is available to all users of the organization. Any user can copy data from this project.

Rules

Rules define data to be copied to the new project.

When you define a project as a project template, all rules are enabled but some cannot be edited or added more than once.

Set this rule ...	To copy this data to the new project:	Can this rule be edited?	Can this rule be added more than once?
Build Jobs	The project template's build jobs and pipelines	No	No
Wiki Content	The project template's wiki pages	No	No
Links	The project template's link rules	No	No
Git Repository	The specified Git repositories and its branches	Yes	Yes
External Git Repository	The specified external Git repository and its branches	Yes	Yes
Announcements	The project template's announcements	No	No

Variables

Variables define user input. Based on the input, you can configure the template to change the action or properties of data that’s copied to the new project.

Use this variable type:	To accept a:
Boolean	Boolean string value (such as True-False, Yes-No, or any string values).
Choice	Value from a list of values configured by project owners.
String	String value.
URL	URL value.