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# Role Templates Overview

**Role templates are one of the easiest ways to save time when designing a new organization on Holaspirit**. Quickly add personalized templates to your organization’s chart and speed up your design.

There might be some roles that will be used in multiple teams or that will take over important accountabilities in their circles. Instead of creating these roles manually every time, you can create role templates to save time.

You can access all your role templates in the Administration settings. By default, role templates for Holacracy 5.0 roles are already created, feel free to use them, edit them or create your own templates!
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# Create a Role template

👤 Role templates are **managed by platform administrators,** but **available for all users** to use within the organization.

To create a new role template, go to **Administration**:

* Go to the **Role templates** section
* Click on **Add a template**
* Fill in the **Name**, **Purpose**, **Domains, and**  **Accountabilities** or **import** a role template
* Click on **Save** to confirm

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# Edit a Role template

The template the role was created from are synchronised. If the template is **modified**, so will the role.

* Click on the 3 dots next to the template
* Select **Edit template**
* Edit the desired fields and click on **Save**, then **Validate**

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📌  **Note**: Any changes made to the role templates are automatically applied to the roles created from it.

# Delete a role template

* Click on the 3 dots next to the template
* Select **Delete template**, then **Delete**

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📌  **Note**: **You cannot delete role templates that are defined as Core Roles** in the [Circle settings section in Administration](https://help.holaspirit.com/en/article/how-to-configure-circle-settings-for-my-organization-1ehcm9w/). If you want to delete them, you must first remove them from Core roles.

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# Lock a Role Template

Administrators of the organization can **lock the role templates** to **keep their core content** and **add extra accountabilities**. This action preserves the **link** between the role and the template. To lock a role template, **swipe the lock button** next to the chosen template and **confirm** the action.

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When a role template is **locked**, members of the organization can only add **extra accountabilities and domains** to the template's core content. They will be visible as additional in the role page. The **link** between role and its template is **preserved**.

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When the role template is not locked, members of organization can freely unlink the role from its template by editing it.
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# Create a Role from a Role Template

### From the Governance app

* Go to the Roles tab
* Click on the **Add** button then **Add a role**
* Select **Import a role template**
* Select the **Parent circle** for the role to be part of
* Select the **Role template**

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📌 **Note**: If the chosen role template is locked, you can only add additional accountabilities and domains to its core content.

### From the Circle page

* Click on **Add**, then **Add a role**
* Select **Import a role template**
* Select the **Role template**

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**From there, the process is the same no matter where you add a new role from:**

* You can explain the reason you are creating a role

* If your organization or circle is set in open decision mode, click on **Validate** and the role will be created in real time.

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* If your organization is set in consent decision mode, you need for the other members of your circle to consent to your proposal of adding a new role to the circle. You have created your proposal, now you can:


* **Submit** your proposal to your circle.

* **Save** your proposal in the **Proposals** app to review it and submit it when you are ready.

* **Add** your proposal to an existing one, already saved in the **Proposals** app.

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👉  [Find out more on how to create, submit and track proposals](https://help.holaspirit.com/en/article/how-to-submit-and-track-a-proposal-1pzbcyt/)
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# Link a Role Template to an existing role

Holaspirit allows you to link role templates to existing roles in order to save time when redesigning and structuring your organization.

👤 You need to be **a member of the circle the role is part of**, and the **role template** you want to apply to the role must already be created.

⚠️ **Important**: When linking a role template to an existing role, its Name, Purpose, Domains and Accountabilities will be **permanently** replaced by the ones of the template.

* Go to the **role page**
* Click on the **three dots** in the top right
* Select **Link to role template**
* Select the **role template** in the drop-down list

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* If your organization is set up in free decision mode, click on **Validate** at the bottom of the page to apply the evolution

* If your organization is set up in consent decision mode, click **Submit** to send your proposal to your teammates for them to vote on or **Save as a proposal** in your **Proposals** app to review and submit later.

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**The role and its template are synchronised:**

👉 If the template is modified, so will the role.

👉 If the template is locked, it will be only possible to add additional accountabilities and domains to it core content.

👉 If the role template is not locked, it will be possible to edit the role core content. Then, they will be desynchronised. You will be notified of this when editing the role.
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# Set a Role template as a Core Role

If you want a role template to be created automatically when creating circles for your organization, you can make it a [Core Role](https://help.holaspirit.com/en/articles/3529137-understanding-core-roles):

* Go to **Administration**
* Go to **Circle Settings**
* In the **Core roles** section, select the role template of your choice in the drop-down menu
* Click on **Save** at the bottom of the page to confirm

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📌  **Note**: If you add a Core Role, it will automatically be added to **all the circles** that will be created, as well as the **existing circles** in your organization. If you remove a Core Role from these settings, the role added to existing circles will be removed and, therefore, what constitutes it.
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# Export the list of members assigned to Role templates

You can export the list of **all members assigned to all the roles synchronised with this role template** in your organization.

Go to **Administration**, then:

* Go to the **Role templates** section
* Click on the three dots next to the template of your choice
* Select **Export members**

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You can also identify de-synced roles through global export and your circle export.