# Global Templates in 7.9

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/global-templates-in-7-9/12288>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 26, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/global-templates-in-7-9/12288 "2016-10-26T13:34:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![rchung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@rchung](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rchung)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/global-templates-in-7-9/12288/1 "2016-10-26T13:34:56Z")

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I have a Controller Gateway and several other gateways as agents, I am trying to share the same templates across all of them as our templates are generic. I cannot seem to get the global templates to “share”. I created a gloabl (shared) template in the Controller Gateway, but this template does not show up in any other gateways. Then I sent this global template to the other gateways using “Send Project Resources” under “Agent Tasks”. After I got the same templates in the controller and all other gateways, I tried making a change to the global (shared) template, but the change is not reflected anywhere else. Am I doing something wrong here? Shouldn’t I be able to use and edit the global templates across all projects?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/global-templates-in-7-9/12288/2 "2016-10-26T16:20:25Z")

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Global (shared) templates are just templates that can be used by all the projects on your gateway rather than belonging to a single project. They don’t automagically sync to other gateways.

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**Author:** ![rchung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@rchung](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rchung)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/global-templates-in-7-9/12288/3 "2016-11-07T16:25:54Z")

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Understood. I ran into issues with using global templates now. I created global templates in my projects, and tried to use them on my screen, however, when I run the project the template objects are not showing up as if the project cannot find the templates. When I am in the designer, all my objects look correct. As soon as I run my project from a client, the template objects do not show up, I only see a box with the template symbol and a red X on the top left corner of the box.