The purpose of this feature is to define Question Templates, provide an ability to the Buying Organization to reuse the questions in the form of templates. These templates can be used while creating an Auction, under the Question and Answers tab. These templates can be created through Auction Question Templates submenu under the Business Administration Main Menu on the left side navigation pane.
Menu Path: Business Administration >> Auction Question Templates
The User Interface is shown below
Create New: This Button will let you define a new template. We will see this in detail in the Create New Template section.
Status:
- Draft: The template is in draft status. Templates in the Draft state can be edited.
- Active: Active templates can be used while creating Auctions. Active Templates can be edited.
- Inactive: Inactive templates cannot be used in Auctions. Inactive templates can be edited.
Actions: The various Actions available for templates are
- View: View the Auctions. Editing is not permitted in View mode.
- Edit: Provision to Edit the contents of the Auction Template
- Activate: Choose this action to activate an inactive Auction Template.
- Deactivate: Choose this action to inactivate an active Auction