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title: "Create a template by exporting report settings"
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You can create a Nexus Insight report template in these ways:

- **In Nexus Insight** (the recommended method), export the settings from a report as a template (JSON file) to create a new template (see the following information).
- **In Windows File Explorer**, copy and rename an existing template. You then use your preferred text editor to edit the JSON file for the new template (see [Create a template by copying an existing template](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NexusInsight/pages/163687277)).

> ✅ **Tip**  
> ✅ For information on locating (and if necessary, restoring) the standard templates (JSON files), see [Maintain and restore the standard templates](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NexusInsight/pages/163684254).

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## Create a report template from within Nexus Insight

1. In Nexus Insight, open a report on which you want to base your new template. This can be one of the following:
  - **To create a new template from scratch**, open a report based on the **No template**** (single trial only)** template.  
:info: **Note**: You can't add reference data to this type of report so if you need to include reference data in a report based on **No template**, see [Create a No template report with reference data](#NoTemplateWithRefData).
  - **To base your new template on an existing template**, open a report based on the required template (Gait, Cutting, or Hitting, or your own template that you saved previously).  
For information on which models work with each of the standard templates, see [About the standard Nexus Insight report templates](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NexusInsight/pages/163684122).
2. Ensure you have made any changes required to the report (see [Customize a Nexus Insight report](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NexusInsight/pages/163691354)). You can make these changes in **Edit report**:
  - Notes
  - Reference data
  - Categories (such as kinematics), variables (such as knee angles) and their specific components (such as, flexion-extension)
  - X-axis (cycle- or time-based)
  - Graph line colors
  - Graph line widths
3. At the top of the report, select **Export**.
4. In the **Export** dialog, select **Report template (JSON)** and then click **Export**.
5. Save the template into the default folder (*C:\Users\Public\Documents\Vicon\NexusInsight\Templates*), giving the template a new name.

To apply your new template to a report, open the required report, click **Edit** and in the **Report template** list, select the new template. For further details, see [Select a different report template](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NexusInsight/pages/163691354/Customize+a+Nexus+Insight+report#SelectTemplate).

> ℹ️ **Note**  
> ℹ️ If you need to make changes to the new template that aren’t listed in Step 2, you must edit the relevant JSON file. For more information, see [Edit a Nexus Insight template JSON file](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NexusInsight/pages/163680067).

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## Create a No template report with reference data

As you can’t include reference data in a report directly based on No template, you must create a second template that enables you to include the required data.

1. Create a report based on **No template** and export the report settings as a template (follow the steps in [Create a report template from within Nexus Insight](#CreateTemplate)).
2. Create a second report, using the template you exported in Step 1, but this time, select the required reference data.
3. Export the settings of this report as a template.