In the eLabFTW Community Meeting, we focused on templates and the ways in which they can help improve the consistency, efficiency, and quality of research documentation.
First, Nicolas Carpi gave an overview of how to use templates. He showed how to add categories, statuses, tags, text, custom fields, grouped fields, units, steps, attachments, links, and permissions. He also showed how some steps or permissions can be locked, and explained that entries created from templates can be set to inherit permissions automatically. Finally, he discussed creating a template directly from an existing experiment or resource, duplicating templates without edit access, and loading additional custom fields into existing entries.