Overview

Managing many multi-day activities and creating modules and templates manually for those adds a lot of work and increases the maintenance efforts of the content. The feature companion templates and modules relieve Product and Content Managers of those additional steps.

What is a "Companion" Template/Module?

A companion template or module inherits all its information from a specific activity product of the Nezasa inventory and is generated by TripBuilder. The companion template/module has the following characteristics:

• Template/Module Management
  • The companion template/module will be listed among the other templates/modules.
  • Users cannot edit. Thus, it cannot be checked out.
  • It contains as its core (and as only product) the activity product from which it inherits description, title, text, pictures, and tags. 
  • The start/end location of the template/module will be what is defined in the activity product.
  • The companion template/module is automatically updated when the activity is updated.

• Discovery
  • A companion template will be listed in Discovery as any other regular template.
    
    
• Planner 
  • Companion modules can be selected as pre-/post-modules.

How to Enable the Companions for a Product Activity?

• Go to the created inventory activity
• Check out and open the product activity
• Click on the Miscellaneous tab 
• Scroll down to the option Companion Generation

Enable the option you need to generate a new template or a module based on the selected activity.

Please note that it takes a moment for TripBuilder to generate all required companion objects. Once the template is generated, it is listed among the "referencing templates" on the same tab. 

Known Limitations

• Companion modules cannot be imported into a template.
• Removing an activity that has companion templates/modules is not possible.
• Companion templates/modules don't have a from-price.