# Creating Custom Templates

### About this export

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| **content_type** | lesson |
| **platform** | contentstack-academy |
| **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows/data-insights-course-5--creating-custom-templates |
| **course_slug** | data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows |
| **lesson_slug** | data-insights-course-5--creating-custom-templates |
| **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/courses/data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows/data-insights-course-5--creating-custom-templates.md |
| **generated_at** | 2026-06-08T14:32:02.460Z |

> Part of **[Automating Journeys with Flows](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows)** on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys.

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#### Video details

#### At a glance

- **Title:** 44-data-insights-flow-templates
- **Duration:** 1m 34s
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- **Publish date (unix):** 1752897269

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#### Video transcript

If I hit create new from the flows list, this is where you'll see all of the pre-configured templates. Likewise, if you switch over to your templates, you'll see the templates that you've been stored that are account specific. So creating a template is super easy. You'll just hit create a template. You'll name your template, let's say demo one, this is a description. And then once you actually hit save and configure, it's just going to take you into the flow canvas where you can configure your template to say and do whatever you would like. And then it's going to automatically save just like a flow. The only difference is now when you come back here and you have my templates, you'll have demo one and then I'll be able to click this. It'll prompt me, show the description, show the name, but if I were to create a flow now with that template, we'll say create flow, it'll pre-populate with the configuration steps that we just configured. So super nice way for customers to build their own templates to their liking so that they can create repeatable processes around their audience or extrusion.

#### Key takeaways

- Connect **Creating Custom Templates** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module.
- Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment.
- Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model.

## Supplement for indexing

### Content summary

Creating Custom Templates. Creating Custom Templates in Automating Journeys with Flows (data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows).

### Retrieval tags

- Creating
- Custom
- Templates
- data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows
- lesson 11
- Creating Custom Templates
- data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows lesson

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Index this lesson as a primary chunk tagged with lesson_id "11" and topics: [Creating, Custom, Templates].
Parent course slug: data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows. Use asset_references URLs as thumbnail hints in search results when present.
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