Always Test a New Template in a Design

Some template rules may not be able to be evaluated fully until the template is instanced in a design; for example, the rules for positioning and orientating the sub-equipments representing the vessel ends in Setting References to Sub-equipments cannot be tested until the specification references for the sub-equipments are set. You cannot check if these rules are correctly defined from within the Design Template application. It is important, before you release a new template to other users, that you incorporate it into a specification (which can be a dummy specification reserved for this purpose), and then create an instance in a design application to check that everything behaves as you intended. Change each of the main property settings in the design to test the effects.