Prerequisite : This feature is available to users with a functional administrator role.

The 'templating' feature allows you to apply a generic calculation formula to all items of the same type within a hierarchy.

This saves considerable time by avoiding the need to input formulas for each individual item.

To understand how to use this feature, let's start with an example.

Imagine we have an operation spread across 2 different regions, with 2 sites per region and 1 compressor per site.

Each compressor returns two different metrics: hydrogen flow rate and pressure.

For each compressor, we want to know the volume of hydrogen compressed.

To do this, we need to create a formula where we multiply our two metrics:

Calculated Metric (Volume) = flow (metric 1) * pressure (metric 2) * compression coefficient.

Creating a formula for each compressor would be long and tedious.

With this new feature, you will be able to create a formula template, which will automatically generate a formula for each compressor.

Proceed to the next article to learn how to create a formula template.