About
Templates are a feature in manual trade entry to accomplish the following:
- Minimize the number of unnecessary key strokes for manual entry.
- Provide you with the flexibility to define different input criteria for different types of trades.
- Make the overall process of manually entering trades more accurate and efficient.
Templates enable you to set up and define the various fields that you want to populate when you manually enter a trade. Mandatory fields must form part of any template. Then, it is your responsibility to decide the optional fields that you want to include in your templates.
In addition to defining the actual fields for trade submission, you can also pre-populate certain fields in the template. All pre-populated fields in the template are displayed to you when you manually enter a trade using that template.
In a template you can pre-populate the type of financial instrument that you trade, settlement period, and ALERT keys required for Standing Settlement Instruction (SSI) enrichment. You enter this information once on the template. Then, every time users select that template, all of those fields are pre-populated when they manually enter a trade.
In addition to the standard templates, you can setup your own custom templates in which you define the exact set of fields that you need to manually enter your debt and equity trades. You can set up custom templates based on different criteria including, but not limited to, instrument type or fund.
- The Manual Entry role is required to create and submit trades.
- Standard templates contain mandatory and other commonly used fields needed for each asset class.
- You can create a maximum of 10 custom templates—10 for blocks and 10 for allocations. If you need a new template and you have already setup the maximum number of custom templates, delete one or more templates and you can create a new one.
- Templates are set up on a per user basis, not at the organization level.