About derived templates

All templates you create within the IDE are derived templates.

When creating your Galaxy application, plan ahead and create derived templates for devices of a certain type so you can use the templates to create the individual instances.

A new derived template is an exact copy of its parent template with the possible exceptions of locking and security and modified attribute values. You can lock attributes to prevent them from being modified in child templates.

After you create a new derived template, you can customize it. For more information about customizing and extending templates, see Create derived templates.

Every template has a set of attributes and default values. When you create an instance, attributes are inherited by the instance. In the instance, you can reconfigure many of the attributes inherited from the parent template if they are not locked on the parent template.

For more information about customizing instances, see Edit objects.