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title: "Managing your view templates"
date: "2017-12-20T11:13:16+00:00"
summary: "Learn how to efficiently manage, edit, lock, export, and delete view templates in Site Studio. Streamline your workflow and maintain control over your website's visual presentation."
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You can manage your existing View templates including editing and deleting them.

Editing a view template
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1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Templates > **View templates**
2.  Find the View template you want to edit
3.  Click **Edit**
4.  On the next screen, edit the template
5.  Click **Save and continue**
6.  The changes you have made to your View template will be applied.

![8f9229e4-edit-view-template.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/572277db-b149-4e5f-b76f-dfc93d82a025/web/8f9229e4-edit-view-template.png)

Lock view template
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You can lock a view template to prevent it from being overwritten if importing a view template with the same machine name using Site Studio sunc.

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Templates > **View templates**
2.  Find the View template you want to lock
3.  Click **Lock**.

![267a61c2-lock-view-template.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/9f6681c1-d427-4c4f-9504-ab28a15246d0/web/267a61c2-lock-view-template.png)

Export a view template
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You can export a view template to use on a different website. When you export a View template as a package it will include all dependancies, including the view configuration.

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Templates > **View templates**
2.  Find the View template you want to export
3.  Click **Export package to file**.

![bbddebf3-export-view-template.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/b4ad57f0-a2db-4b8b-be6a-9e589f740b3a/web/bbddebf3-export-view-template.png)

Deleting a view template
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When you delete a View template it will delete the template file. Any views using the View template will no longer use the view template.

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Templates > **View templates**
2.  Find the View template you want to delete
3.  Click **Delete**
4.  On the confirmation screen, click **Delete.**

![69073b21-delete-view-template.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/2fed0568-e62f-4bef-a45d-850142643462/web/69073b21-delete-view-template.png)