# Templates

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**Understanding Standards**

This page is a reference to the features of the Standards Templates page in CIPP. To better understand Standards and Drift Management, please see the main page for [Standards & Drift](/user-documentation/tenant/standards.md).
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## Available Standards

Please see [Available Standards](/user-documentation/tenant/standards/alignment/templates/available-standards.md) for a list of standards you can configure for your tenants.

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## Page Layout

### **Action Buttons**

`Add Template` and `Create Drift Template` will open the [Add Standards Template](/user-documentation/tenant/standards/template.md) with the settings available for the respective template type.

### **Table Details**

| Column           | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Template Name    | The name you set when creating the template                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Tenant           | The tenant or tenants the standard is created for                                                                                                                                                             |
| Excluded Tenants | The tenant or tenants excluded from AllTenants standards                                                                                                                                                      |
| Run Manually     | A Boolean field indicating if the template is set to only be run manually. This displays as false (X in circle) if the template runs on the schedule and a true (✔️) if this template will only run manually. |
| Created At       | Relative time since the template was created                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Updated At       | Relative time since the template was updated                                                                                                                                                                  |
| GUID             | The GUID for the template                                                                                                                                                                                     |

### **Table Actions**

<table><thead><tr><th>Action</th><th>Description</th><th data-type="checkbox">Bulk Action Available</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="/pages/wMOBK4sq9NJZLqBrqYB1">View Tenant Report</a></td><td>This will open a CIPP created report that compares the standards template to the settings discovered for the tenant currently selected in the drop down</td><td>false</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/pages/yNdZalbpOGQ6czzLFMMj">Edit Template</a></td><td>Opens the template configuration page</td><td>false</td></tr><tr><td>Clone &#x26; Edit Template</td><td>Copies the existing template and lets you make changes before saving as a new template</td><td>false</td></tr><tr><td>Run Template Now (Currently Selected Tenant only)</td><td>Runs the template on the tenant displayed in the action.</td><td>true</td></tr><tr><td>Run Template Now (All Tenants in Template)</td><td>Runs the template for all configured tenants</td><td>true</td></tr><tr><td>Save to GitHub</td><td>Saves the selected template(s) to your selected GitHub repository</td><td>true</td></tr><tr><td>Delete Template</td><td>Deletes the template</td><td>true</td></tr></tbody></table>

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## Feature Requests / Ideas

We value your feedback and ideas. Please raise any [feature requests](https://github.com/KelvinTegelaar/CIPP/issues/new?template=feature.yml) on GitHub.


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