# Detect wrong template references

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/detect-wrong-template-references/23022>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [March 4, 2019, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/detect-wrong-template-references/23022 "2019-03-04T07:36:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Sanderd17](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sanderd17/32/8735_2.png) [@Sanderd17](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sanderd17)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/detect-wrong-template-references/23022/1 "2019-03-04T07:36:45Z")

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Apparently, in 7.9, it used to be possible to include a project-specific template into a global template.

When upgrading to 8.0, this makes the templates unavailable.

I realise this isn’t good practice, and it’s not done on purpose, but rather a leftover from older projects (before the global scope).

However, I wonder if there’s an easy way to detect all cases where this happened, and correct them manually.

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/detect-wrong-template-references/23022/2 "2019-03-20T23:18:08Z")

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I’d say this is still possible, and now it actually does make sense. Simply put a “blank” template into the parent project, and then override it in your child project(s). It think that should do what you’re trying to do, unless I’ve misunderstood the question.

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**Author:** ![Sanderd17](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sanderd17/32/8735_2.png) [@Sanderd17](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sanderd17)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2019, 6:47am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/detect-wrong-template-references/23022/3 "2019-03-21T06:47:48Z")

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I already accepted that it won’t work, and was just looking for ways to detect the problems.

But that’s actually a nice solution. Great, I’ll be using that 🙂