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# How do I create a log template?


| Note: To be able to create log templates, you must have organization admin rights. => [Rights and roles within the organization](https://help.smino.com/en/article/rights-and-roles-within-the-organization-1ckwzdh/)

Minutes templates are used to save the structure (numbering), titles, and texts of agenda items/tracts and minutes items as a template. Thus, employees of your organization can select the template when opening a new series of meetings. 

To create a template, you must create new minutes in an existing session series or open an existing draft. 

| Note: How to create a new protocol is explained in the following helparticle => [How do I create a new protocol?](https://help.smino.com/en/article/how-do-i-create-a-new-protocol-ymd8js/)

Click **Logs** (1.) and open the desired session series. Then open an existing **Draft** (2.) or create a new protocol by clicking the **+ New Protocol** button (3.), which you then want to save as a template. 

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The detailed view of the protocol opens. Click on the **three dots** (1.) and then on **Create Log Template** (2.).

| Note: Create the entire structure of the draft minutes with the titles and texts of the agenda items/tracts and minutes items before proceeding and creating the template.

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Define the template name (yellow highlighted area) and then click the **Save** button.

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The log template is now created and available to all employees in your organization. When you open a new protocol, you can click the **Log  Template** option (1.) and select the desired **Template** (2.). After that you can click the **Open log** button (3.). 

| Note: The log templates can be used organization-wide in all projects.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/7/f/f/e/7ffe47b65f73d800/image_adq4xw.png)