How do program communication templates and reports work together?

A program communications report offers details associated with a program's progress. At the back-end of each report lies a report template.

Program managers use performance measures, text, and other elements, such as graphs, to create these templates in the Program Management application. For details on how to create a report template, see How can I create a program communications report template?

When program managers use a template to create a report for a program, the application runs data associated with the program on the elements in the template, creating a report that contains data unique to the program.

Templates, therefore, contain all the details that appear in a report. When you edit a report, you can only edit the report's properties. To edit its contents, you must edit the template used with the report.