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Using Checklist Templates

For System Administrators

Being updated. This article was recovered from the old Help Center. Its steps and screenshots show the older Dynamics 365 interface.

Checklist Templates are the pre-configured lists of to-do items that can be called on-demand, or used in workflow automation.

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Checklist Templates are records you create to store lists of items that can be re-used over and over again.

Think of Checklist Templates as your library of pre-defined process lists, that you can expand over time as you try to streamline your business processes.

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  • Go to the Dynamics 365 APP Switcher
  • Select the D365 Checklists app

App Switcher showing D365 Checklists

  • Select Checklists Templates from the sitemap

D365 Checklists app sitemap

  • Navigate to Checklist Templates
  • Click the New button NEW button to add a new Checklist Template
  • or open an existing Checklist Template to edit it

Active Checklist Templates view

  • Set or Edit the main fields:
    • Name = The name of the template
    • Category = This can make your templates easier to sort
    • Description = Use it if you need a reminder of what the template’s for

Checklist Template form

  • Save your changes
  • Open to your Checklist Template
  • Add Checklist Items as required

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  • Edit, Resort or Delete as required
  • Lock items that you want to be enforced/mandatory for end-users (This means users can tick/cross them, but not edit or delete them)
  • When done just Save & Close
  • When using any Checklist, click the Use a Template button

Use a Template button

  • Select the Checklist Template you wish to insert into your Checklist
  • Click OK

Use a Template dialog

  • The items from the Checklist Template will be added to your current Checklist

Template items added to the checklist