In order to be able to clone a project, the user should have 3 privileges granted; View Project, View Financials and Add Project. If any of these have a specific 'Deny' at the Company Settings, the person will not be able to clone template projects. You can grant 'Add Project' to the roles you wish to allow to clone and create projects. But typically a company may not want to Grant the 'View Project' and 'View Financials' to all their Staff, as that would mean anyone who is a user of Celoxis can view all projects including its financial information. To achieve a setting where the relevant people have the relevant permissions, leave the above privileges as 'Unspecified' for the Staff role at the company security settings. An 'Unspecified' at the Company level means that the object level security will be consulted. At the template level (i.e on the specific projects that are defined as templates), set object level security and specifically set a Grant on the 2 privileges - 'View Project' and 'View Financials'.
| Company Level | View Project | View Financials | Add Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | Unspecified | Unspecified | Grant |
| Template Level | |||
| Staff | Grant | Grant | NA |
You can prefix the project name with 'Template' for e.g "Template - 4572 TEST Project" OR you can create a custom field say 'Is Template' (type Single-select drop-down with values Yes and No) and select Yes or No depending on whether this project is a template project. Creating a custom field can help you segregate templates from actual projects in reports.