Modify the template to suit your needs, and then select Execute to run the query:. The explorer should open where the templates are stored on disk:. You can also create a new template in Template Browser. The following steps show you how to create a new folder, and then create a new template in that folder. You can also use these steps to create a custom template in an existing folder. Enter a name for your template:.
Right-click the template you created, and then select Edit. The New Query Window opens. It looks like, unfortunately, you can't do it this way. Default templates in Template Explorer are available for convenience only, changes to them are not reflected in default scripts. What I did was create a new folder and then save the changes to that folder.
You have to close out of SSMS and reopen to see it; you can use the same name for the template in a different folder. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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Asked 9 years, 9 months ago. Active 7 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 1k times. Each directory category shows up as a node in the Template Browser window pane. Once that was done I just copied them to the repository where SQL Server stores all of it's templates. All of my categorized custom scripts showed up in the template browser after I copied them to the default template location and restarted Query Analyer.
I first decided to find where to put all my custom template code and then think about the sharing. A dockable panel will open showing all the default templates that come with SSMS. One thing I noticed was that it took way too long just to display the tree nodes in this new version of Template Explorer but I was unsure why that could be. Looking in the options dialog for SQL was not fruitful either because the template location is no longer shown as an option. During my research I discovered that custom templates are stored under your AppData folder in your Windows user directory.
If you take a look in there you will see that not only your custom templates are located here but also all the standard ones that come with SSMS. This location contains only the standard templates installed with SSMS.
Another finding was that the tsql file extension is no longer used for templates but rather. Why are the standard templates in both locations? Well, the idea which is a very questionable "feature" if you ask me is that each user on a particular machine will have their own copy of all templates in their user directory. This explains the delay in populating the Template Explorer tree nodes as well.
Unfortunately this makes it very difficult to share a common repository with team members on different machines. Our script library had grown quite a bit as well in the years between SQL and the release of SQL and we were really hoping that the templates could be easily shared amongst us. We had some success but it just was not as simple as I would have liked. Windows 7 introduced a new shell command called mklink.
A similar command has been available to Unix and variants like Linux for many years.
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