Creating New Courses; Template Courses
There are three ways to create a new course: without using a template course,
using one template course, or using one of several template courses.
No Template Course
This is the simplest way to create a new course,
and is the best suited for beginning users.
To create a course without using a template:
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Click on the "File" menu.
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If the "Use Template" menu item is checked, click on the menu item to uncheck it,
then click on the "File" menu again.
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Click on the "New" menu item to create a new course.
Many properties of the new course will be initialized
to what those properties were most recently set to for
previously created courses. The course will not contain any shapes.
One Template Course
This method is ideal if you want all of the courses
you create to start out the same, possibly including some shapes.
For example, you may want all courses you create to start out with
a Text shape that you use as a header.
To use this method, you first create and save the template course:
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Create a course to be exactly like you want new courses to appear,
including any Text, Start/Finish lines, or other shapes.
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Use the "File / Save as Template" menu item to save the course as being
the template course. The template course will be "remembered" each time
you use Course Designer.
After creating and saving the template course once, you can then create
multiple courses that are initially the same as the template course,
by using the "File / New" menu item.
Multiple Template Courses
This method is ideal if you have several different ways that you want courses
to appear when you initially create them. For example, if you regularly
design courses for use at two different dog agility facilities,
you may want two template courses. Each template course would,
for example, contain the unusable areas for the dog agility facility
that it pertains to.
To use this method, you first create and save each template course:
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Create a course to be exactly like you want to new courses to appear
when using this template course.
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Use the "File / Save As" menu item to save the template course.
It is recommended that you save template courses to a folder
called "Templates". This will make the template course files easier
to find than if they were just mixed in with all your other course files.
After creating and saving your template courses once,
you can then create multiple courses that are initially the same
as one of your template courses. For each new course:
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Open the template course file, either by using the "File / Open" menu item,
or by clicking on the template course file if it appears
on the "File" menu.
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Save the new course immediately as something different
from the template course file,
so that you can't later accidentally
overwrite the template course file by using the "File / Save" menu item.
There are two ways to save the new course so that the "File / Save" menu item
won't overwrite the template course: you can save the course to a file by using
the "File / Save As" menu item, or you can save the course
by using the "File / Save as Template" menu item.
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