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Chapter 3: Creating a Template from a Chart
Creating a Template from an Existing Chart 3.2
To save time during an investigation if you have to create several similar charts, it is
a good idea to create a template that contains all of the entity types, link types and
properties that you frequently use.
There are two ways that you can create a template:
• Create a new empty template (how to do this is described in
Chapter 2, Creating Templates).
• Create a template (.ant file), from an existing chart (.anb file), containing all
of the entity types, link types, and properties that you want to use when
creating similar charts during an investigation.
When you create a template from an existing chart you can choose which parts of
the chart are included in the template. For example, in your investigation you may
have a common theme line or event frame, or a legend, that you want to display on
each new chart that you create using the template.
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