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title: "How do I activate a template?"
date: "2025-01-09T20:37:49+00:00"
summary: "Learn how to activate, release, and expire templates in the Templates app. Discover scheduling options for release and expiration dates, ensuring timely availability and management of your document templates."
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Templates can be released and expired from Manage Templates page in the Templates app. They can also be re-released if they've been expired. Click Release Now to release a template for users to [customize](As-a-user-how-do-I-customize-templates) or Expire Now to discontinue allowing customization.  
  

![Click Release Now to allow users to customize a template or Expire Now to discontinue allowing customization.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/2dc894ce-e144-4d2d-a843-5c7c2989aa56/web/ka0Pb0000006z5d00N6g00000WDN1a0EM6g000005LvnW.png)

  
 

Release and expiration dates for templates
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Schedule release and expiration dates for templates from the [Document Details page](Where-can-I-see-template-details). Schedule a release date for templates that are newly uploaded (and therefore unreleased) so they're not available to users until you review and release them.  
  

![Set release and expiration dates for templates in Template Details.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/e7071808-c0af-4bd2-885e-4215b79803ec/web/ka0Pb0000006z5d00N6g00000WDN1a0EM6g000005LvnR.png)

  
  
Schedule an expiration date for a template for some time in the future or expire a template now. For example, if you wanted to make a product sheet available only until the end of the year, add the expiration date of December 31.  
  

![Set an expiration date for a template in Template Details.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/edb88097-8b93-457d-b57e-969ea2529f63/web/ka0Pb0000006z5d00N6g00000WDN1a0EM6g000005LvnX.png)

  
  
Designers can also remove a template entirely from within InDesign.