Following up our posts in this series from last week, today we are going to quickly show how we can set a template ID in a Service Request template so that the template ID is always set on SR creation.

The first step in this process is to create a new Service Request template, making sure to place the template in a new management pack so it’s easy to work with and update as needed in the future:

Next, lets set a default Title and fill in the required Urgency and Priority fields. If desired, fill in any other related fields you’d like applied to the SR when the template is used:

Save the SR template. Now we are going to export the new management pack we saved the template into and make a few changes.

Open the management pack XML file that you exported with your text editor, here I’m using Visual Studio Code.

Search for the <Templates> tag with the nested <ObjectTemplate> tag. In the case that you have stored several templates in this MP we are looking for the one that has the matching /Title$ property that we set when we saved the template:

Now we are going to add our template ID property like the below image shows:

Make sure that when you are setting the property in the XML that you are targeting the ServiceRequest class, as the TemplateId property is not a property of the base WorkItem class, but the ServiceRequest class itself.

Now save the management pack and import it back into Service Manager:

That’s all there is to it! From there you can create a new SR from the newly edited template and when you view the TemplateId for the request in Powershell or the Portal you should see your preset value: